Washington (AP). Most Americans say children should be vaccinated to attend school. However, since Florida plans to become the first state to abolish childhood vaccines, US adults are also less likely to believe that these immunization is important than a few decades ago.
Conventional childhood vaccine prices are falling, and fewer Americans, especially Republicans, now say that it is very important for children to vaccinate. The survey shows that a relatively small but influential American group opposed to children’s vaccines, concerns about personal freedom and the influence of the government are important.
According to US Disease Control and Prevention Centers, children’s vaccines prevent $ 4 million every year to die every year. And they not only protect individuals; They create a “herd immunity” in the community. This is when enough people have immunity to stop the uncontrolled spread of the disease. This protects all safe, preventing outbreaks that can sink into vulnerable.
Here’s what the latest survey of children’s vaccines shows and how they changed.
Americans essentially support vaccine credentials
The Florida step is a significant deviation from decades of public policy and research that has shown that vaccines are safe and the most effective way to stop the spread of infectious diseases.
It is also fundamentally contrary to the basic public opinion on vaccine requirements, although some surveys show that US adults are less likely to adopt the vaccine mandate than a few decades ago.
About 8 out of 10 US adults in Harvard/USSR said from March that parents should be required to get their children vaccinated against preventable diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella to attend school, including most Democrats and Republicans. And about 7 out of 10 US adults in the New York Times/IPSOS survey said healthy children should be vaccinated due to risk to others.
2024. A Gallup survey found a narrower divorce, but about half of our adults say the government should demand that all parents can vaccinate their children against contagious diseases such as measles, and a little less than half said the government should stay outside.
This is a dramatic shift since 1991, when another survey found that 81% of Americans said the government should demand a childhood vaccination.
Republicans are less prone to vaccines to view as important
Decreased support for children’s vaccination requirements is usually determined by Republicans. 2024. A Gallup survey found that most Republicans, 60 %, are contrary to government vaccine mandates.
At the same time, Republicans are also less prone to vaccines as important. In a Gallup survey, only about a quarter of the Republicans said it was “extremely important” for parents to be vaccinated compared to about 6 in 10 Democrats.
Both parties began to divorce against the Covid-19 pandemia, but the gap has fundamentally expanded after 2019, when the Republicans became much more likely to reject the importance of children’s vaccinations.
Slightly more than half of the Americans were “especially” or “very” or “very” worried that more people who choose not to vaccinate their children against children’s diseases would cause more contagious outbreaks, according to AP-Norc in January, but Democrats were more concerned than Republicans or independent persons.
Many have heard false claims about the risk of vaccines
As important numbers like Kennedy refuse to recognize the scientific consensus that children’s vaccines do not cause autism, April KFF survey shows that about 6 out of 10 adults have heard or read a false claim that measles, mumps and ruby vaccines, also known as MMR vaccines, cause autism to children.
About a third heard a false claim that vaccinations are more dangerous than measles, KFF says.
Very few US adults – approximately 5% – think every statement is “really true”, survey, but less than half says that each is “really false”, a significant part of which expresses uncertainty.
The vaccine mandate opposition may be more about the choice than to the safety
However, another survey shows that concerns about parental rights may be greater than security worries.
Since March, the Harvard/USSR survey found that about 8 out of 10 of those who do not support the usual vaccine requirements have argued that the “main cause” due to this opposition was that it should be parents’ choice, regardless of whether or not to vaccinate their child.
Many less vaccines opposites, 40%, argued that security concerns are the main cause.