this piece is from last year, but it highlights an interesting pattern of outbreaks like this disproportionately tending to occur in insular, minority communities and not usually the broader...
this piece is from last year, but it highlights an interesting pattern of outbreaks like this disproportionately tending to occur in insular, minority communities and not usually the broader public because those communities tend to be "othered" and their views ignored from the beginning and thus end up not necessarily have the aversion to the idea of vaccination being a negative because of that. call it a curious quirk of sociopolitical status.
Can you provide a citation for that? Since AFAIK the outbreaks have happened in many varied locations around the US representing a wide range of sociopolitical and socioeconomic populations,...
Can you provide a citation for that? Since AFAIK the outbreaks have happened in many varied locations around the US representing a wide range of sociopolitical and socioeconomic populations, including many in largely white, affluent ones in California, Washington, etc.
not with measles, and your source literally demonstrates this because the two largest dots for measles on the map that i'm seeing there are the somali community's outbreak in 2017 and the LA...
not with measles, and your source literally demonstrates this because the two largest dots for measles on the map that i'm seeing there are the somali community's outbreak in 2017 and the LA orthodox jewish community's outbreak, also in 2017 (which is actually not reflected in this article). all of the others appear to be either small clusters of people or individual cases, and some of the outbreaks listed in the article here aren't even reflected on there (presumably because the listing there is imperfect and the article is counting gradual-burn-type disease spread in certain communities as outbreaks).
Fair enough... measles outbreaks do indeed seem to be disproportionately affecting minority communities, especially the Orthodox Jewish one. However by far the largest outbreak clusters appear to...
Fair enough... measles outbreaks do indeed seem to be disproportionately affecting minority communities, especially the Orthodox Jewish one. However by far the largest outbreak clusters appear to be the Mumps outbreaks in Texas/Arkansas, Missouri and Washington, and Pertussis/Whooping Cough in Alabama and Indiana... none of which have any demographic information attached to them AFAICT. So this could just be a case of selection bias, in that outbreaks amongst the insular communities you mention are more likely to be reported on and memorable than outbreaks of similar (or larger) size with no similarly easily identifiable common factor in their community.
this piece is from last year, but it highlights an interesting pattern of outbreaks like this disproportionately tending to occur in insular, minority communities and not usually the broader public because those communities tend to be "othered" and their views ignored from the beginning and thus end up not necessarily have the aversion to the idea of vaccination being a negative because of that. call it a curious quirk of sociopolitical status.
Can you provide a citation for that? Since AFAIK the outbreaks have happened in many varied locations around the US representing a wide range of sociopolitical and socioeconomic populations, including many in largely white, affluent ones in California, Washington, etc.
http://www.vaccineswork.org/vaccine-preventable-disease-outbreaks/
not with measles, and your source literally demonstrates this because the two largest dots for measles on the map that i'm seeing there are the somali community's outbreak in 2017 and the LA orthodox jewish community's outbreak, also in 2017 (which is actually not reflected in this article). all of the others appear to be either small clusters of people or individual cases, and some of the outbreaks listed in the article here aren't even reflected on there (presumably because the listing there is imperfect and the article is counting gradual-burn-type disease spread in certain communities as outbreaks).
Fair enough... measles outbreaks do indeed seem to be disproportionately affecting minority communities, especially the Orthodox Jewish one. However by far the largest outbreak clusters appear to be the Mumps outbreaks in Texas/Arkansas, Missouri and Washington, and Pertussis/Whooping Cough in Alabama and Indiana... none of which have any demographic information attached to them AFAICT. So this could just be a case of selection bias, in that outbreaks amongst the insular communities you mention are more likely to be reported on and memorable than outbreaks of similar (or larger) size with no similarly easily identifiable common factor in their community.