https://www.npr.org/sections/health...ign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190209
It is amazing to read stories like this in 2019, but here we are.
You have to wonder how many other kids growing up in these families are just now starting to react as they begin to understand what their parents have (not) done.
This entire issue feels as if decisive government intervention is just around the corner.
Deny me vaccines if old.
Ethan Lindenberger is getting vaccinated for well, just about everything.
He's 18 years old, but had never received vaccines for diseases like hepatitis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, or the chickenpox.
Lindenberger's mother, Jill Wheeler, is anti-vaccine. He said she has been influenced by online misinformation, such as a debunked study that claimed certain vaccines were linked with autism, or a theory that vaccines cause brain damage. Incorrect ideas like these have spread like wildfire, so much so that the CDC has explicitly tried to combat them, posting pages like "Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism."
Lindenberger's eldest sister is vaccinated, and his eldest brother is partially immunized, but once his mother found out that she had the right to opt-out of vaccinations, she chose not to vaccinate her younger five children.
"God knows how I'm still alive," Lindenberger wrote on Reddit last November.
It is amazing to read stories like this in 2019, but here we are.
You have to wonder how many other kids growing up in these families are just now starting to react as they begin to understand what their parents have (not) done.
This entire issue feels as if decisive government intervention is just around the corner.
Deny me vaccines if old.