About a year ago, I wrote a detailed piece about measles infection and disease focused on the myths about its severity and nonexistent health benefits.
This is some of the most important health Information that I believe anyone can ever learn.
The Information presented in this article should be mainstream knowledge and should receive regular media attention, it is a tragedy that the dangers of all three viruses: Measles, Mumps and Rubella are not widely known. Also, it is apparent that the M.M.R. vaccine is one of our most important Immunizations.
Also, with the understanding that we need a new Mumps vaccine, vaccine science and research (an already neglected and not nearly enough a societal priority), may be even less prioritized in the coming years?
With the prevalence of immune modifying drugs increasing, the option for a booster requires stopping those drugs: perhaps better studies there could inform which ones actually present a risk as it isn’t likely ALL of them.
I have other physician friends who get tested and revaccinated due to only brief seroconversion on testing. We suspect they likely have adequate immunity, to your point.
I feel like a routine third dose for college students has been floated for so long but never has materialized.
Personally, I think given the uptick in outbreaks, perhaps more details on who, how long from the complete series, and of course more stringent requirements… not happening soon.
Anecdotally: the one time I got Covid (AFAIK) was at a time I was getting PT for adhesive capsulitis, and I wasn't masking very much. PT is probably a perfect storm: small space, close contact, and lots of folks who are either old or on immunosuppressive meds.
Ha! I had a total knee n 2022 and changed PT location as they did not mask and did not leave much space between people. At the time, it was required for health care facilities to mask where I was. I couldn’t figure out how the PT place was not one and not in the mood to argue. I asked a few places about their masking policy and none of them required masks. I moved on and went to the hospital based PT- they masked but also the new PT was phenomenal, so win win. Thank you fir validating this decision LOL
As a physician that bounces between well and sick kids, I mask all the time at work. And half the time they deny symptoms but come in sick, or deny Covid exposure and report significant and meaningful exposures once arrived. So. I am still masking.
But we only have symptomatic patients and or parents masking n the office. That seems to be working and not causing an issue.
Thanks. I'm not convinced that I should get another one just yet, but this is leading me to reconsider. I've had 4 total: 1975 (at 1 year old), in 1989 when a measles outbreak occurred near my home town (I was on the track team), and again in fall 2019 when there was an outbreak in Brooklyn in the Hasidic community. The one thing that's making me consider another booster is that someone close to me has CLL.
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This is some of the most important health Information that I believe anyone can ever learn.
The Information presented in this article should be mainstream knowledge and should receive regular media attention, it is a tragedy that the dangers of all three viruses: Measles, Mumps and Rubella are not widely known. Also, it is apparent that the M.M.R. vaccine is one of our most important Immunizations.
Also, with the understanding that we need a new Mumps vaccine, vaccine science and research (an already neglected and not nearly enough a societal priority), may be even less prioritized in the coming years?
With the prevalence of immune modifying drugs increasing, the option for a booster requires stopping those drugs: perhaps better studies there could inform which ones actually present a risk as it isn’t likely ALL of them.
I have other physician friends who get tested and revaccinated due to only brief seroconversion on testing. We suspect they likely have adequate immunity, to your point.
I feel like a routine third dose for college students has been floated for so long but never has materialized.
Personally, I think given the uptick in outbreaks, perhaps more details on who, how long from the complete series, and of course more stringent requirements… not happening soon.
ACIP has guidance for vaccinating those with altered immunocompetence:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-best-practices/altered-immunocompetence.html
I am also not optimistic about the prospects of a new mumps vaccine any time soon
Anecdotally: the one time I got Covid (AFAIK) was at a time I was getting PT for adhesive capsulitis, and I wasn't masking very much. PT is probably a perfect storm: small space, close contact, and lots of folks who are either old or on immunosuppressive meds.
PS Adhesive capsulitis sucks
Ha! I had a total knee n 2022 and changed PT location as they did not mask and did not leave much space between people. At the time, it was required for health care facilities to mask where I was. I couldn’t figure out how the PT place was not one and not in the mood to argue. I asked a few places about their masking policy and none of them required masks. I moved on and went to the hospital based PT- they masked but also the new PT was phenomenal, so win win. Thank you fir validating this decision LOL
As a physician that bounces between well and sick kids, I mask all the time at work. And half the time they deny symptoms but come in sick, or deny Covid exposure and report significant and meaningful exposures once arrived. So. I am still masking.
But we only have symptomatic patients and or parents masking n the office. That seems to be working and not causing an issue.
You know, people are touchy about this.
Thanks. I'm not convinced that I should get another one just yet, but this is leading me to reconsider. I've had 4 total: 1975 (at 1 year old), in 1989 when a measles outbreak occurred near my home town (I was on the track team), and again in fall 2019 when there was an outbreak in Brooklyn in the Hasidic community. The one thing that's making me consider another booster is that someone close to me has CLL.