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A 30-fold rise of measles cases in 2023 in the WHO European Region warrants urgent action (www.who.int)
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[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not the harmless side effects they fear, it's (overblown) serious side effects that they fear. There is the Guillain Barré syndrome that is real but very rare, as well as a lot of imagined serious side effects like death.

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I mean most drugs have side effects. The thing is that many of the side effects is also there if you get the disease itself, so it's not like you're extra protected by not vaccinating, quite the opposite.

Sadly it seems logic isn't really what's needed to get people to change their mind. I don't know what can though.