PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt Thanks for the note. I'm checking with my doctor to see if I can get an immunity test.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
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I got shots for measles, shingles, Covid, and flu several months ago. Zero regrets despite some side effects. Thanks for the PSA! -
PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt Shit. Thank you. I will ask about this at my next doctor visit.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt This is really interesting. I'm wondering if anyone who's replied is in the UK? We can't just request vaccines on the NHS, for example I wasn't eligible for a free flu jab this year, but this is something I could look into getting done privately, esp as I have a health plan through work instead of a pay rise
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@overholt Shit. Thank you. I will ask about this at my next doctor visit.
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@alwirtes @overholt Similarly, I had all my vaccines in childhood, but (without bothering with a test) I got an MMR and a Tdap in the last year because I work with young people and I don’t want to be an asymptomatic spreader of anything.
Hearing people talk about feeling side effects from either is a bit of a wake-up call. I had zero side effects, which may mean my immunity had waned significantly!
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
56. Had to go to Texas for work last year when they were having an outbreak. I got a booster before going.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt I had the same 11 years ago (at age 43)
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@alwirtes @overholt Similarly, I had all my vaccines in childhood, but (without bothering with a test) I got an MMR and a Tdap in the last year because I work with young people and I don’t want to be an asymptomatic spreader of anything.
Hearing people talk about feeling side effects from either is a bit of a wake-up call. I had zero side effects, which may mean my immunity had waned significantly!
@aprilfollies @alwirtes @overholt It's only a sample of one, but my medical practitioner said there was no correlation between vaccine response and current levels of resistance.
I asked after a recent vaccination which hit me quite hard and I figured it meant that my body thought it was fighting a big war against a new bad guy, but apparently no, no correlation, just luck of the draw.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt @wendynather I got my measles boosted a few months ago too. No thanks, I'll take a helping of science.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt I had tests run last spring and discovered I had no immunity to mumps, so I got the MMR vaccines. Anyone immunized in the 1960-70s should consider getting revaccinated.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt Same. I'm in my mid-forties, but it turned out that in the state & year that I was born, they only gave one MMR shot to kids, not two. So I got a second one last year.
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@aprilfollies @alwirtes @overholt It's only a sample of one, but my medical practitioner said there was no correlation between vaccine response and current levels of resistance.
I asked after a recent vaccination which hit me quite hard and I figured it meant that my body thought it was fighting a big war against a new bad guy, but apparently no, no correlation, just luck of the draw.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt that’s what smart people do!
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt i even go more far, as eu citizen, i would like to see a mandatory vaccination with exeption if you have a proven by 3 differents phisician an alergic reaction to one component.
Of course any "fake" document make those 3 phisician out of job.
Because no not vaccinating is not a "freedom", because no country in the world give it's population the right to be sick.
It's not because country don't punish sick people that it's de facto, allowed.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt @mainframed767 and so much is about not necessarily helping yourself, but your community.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt That's interesting, I turned 55 last November. Definitely a good idea to have a checkup...
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt
In my 60's, and got tested last month. I have immunity, yay!Chatting with the med tech at the blood draw, the titre test is more expensive than a MMR shot. We were a little surprised they didn't just order the booster.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
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@overholt T|Y.Thank you
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt This is a really important PSA! When I was getting ready to go to college in the late '80s they were systematically requiring a re-up of the measles vaccination due to the exact concern you mention. As a know it all teenager at the time, I was annoyed. But in the last several years, I've been grateful for that proactive requirement - made by the US Naval Hospital in Bethesda MD, which has since been merged with Walther Reed Army Medical Center.
