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A site dedicated to making the case for vaccine exemptions using CDC statements, vaccine inserts, and peer reviewed science.

  • Vaccine Safety
    • Adverse Events After Vaccination – How Often They Occur
    • Adverse Effects of Vaccines Evidence and Causality – 2012 IOM Report
    • Immunity for Vaccine Manufactures & HHS Failure to Submit Safety Reports
    • Plotkin Deposition
    • WHO Global Vaccine Safety Summit
    • ACIP Meeting for Hepislav-B
    • DTP: The Story of an Unsafe Vaccine
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • Hep B
    • Pertussis
    • Influenza
    • NJ Assembly Woman Vandervalk – Protecting an at-risk population
  • Herd Immunity
    • Problems with Herd Immunity: District 11 Stories
      • The Medically Complicated: Keanu
      • Vaccine Injury: Gio
      • The Medically Complicated: Michael
    • Measles & Herd Immunity
  • COVID
    • The Overwhelming Evidence for Keeping Schools Open
    • How to tell the magnitude of NJ’s second wave?
    • FLU SHOT MANDATE: WILL IT HELP DURING COVID-19?
    • Alan Dershowitz and Paul Offit Advocate for Vaccine Choice
    • CDC, Oxford, Stanford Agree, COVID-19 IFR is under 0.3%

THE GREATER GOOD PART II: Vaccines alone can not provide herd immunity for many pathogens due to primary (low responders) and secondary (early waners) vaccine failure.

The greater good and the protection of the immunocompromised is often cited as the primary rationale for mandatory vaccination. It is currently being used as motivation to remove NJ’s Religious Exemption. This idea is untenable. We’ve addresses that a number of vaccines do not even claim to provide herd immunity in Part I. Furthermore, for some pathogens, vaccines alone can not provide herd immunity due to vaccine failure. Hence the unvaccinated pose no greater risk to the public than the vaccinated.

  • Primary Vaccine Failure, also known as “low responders,” refers to a portion of the population that never receives any protection even after multiple boosters. The percent of “no response” from this group depends on the vaccine and the individual.
  • Flu: (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies.htm) CDC records show that over the last 15 years, starting in the 2004-2005 flu season, the flu vaccine effectiveness estimates average 39.9% effective.
  • Mumps: (https://www.cdc.gov/mumps/hcp.html) The CDC states “two doses of mumps vaccine are 88% (range 31% to 95%) effective at preventing the disease; one dose is 78% (range 49% to 91%) effective.”
  • Furthermore, the CDC states “People who previously had one or two doses of MMR vaccine can still get mumps and transmit the disease. During mumps outbreaks in highly vaccinated communities, the proportion of cases that occur among people who have been vaccinated may be high. “
  • Pertussis: (https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/about/faqs.html) The CDC states “in general, DTaP vaccines are 80% to 90% effective… within the first 2 years after getting the vaccine.” 
  • Secondary Vaccine Failure, also known as “waning immunity,” refers to the fact that all vaccine wane over time.  How fast they wane depends on the vaccine and the individual. 
  • Polio: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/effectiveness-duration-protection.html  The CDC states “it is not known how long people who received IPV will be immune to poliovirus.”
  • Pertussis: (https://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/about/faqs.html): The CDC states “pertussis vaccines are effective, but not perfect. They typically offer good levels of protection within the first 2 years after getting the vaccine, but then protection decreases over time.”
  • Furthermore the CDC clearly states “public health experts cannot rely on herd immunity to protect people from pertussis since: pertussis spreads so easily, vaccine protection decreases over time, acellular pertussis vaccines may not prevent colonization (carrying the bacteria in your body without getting sick) or spread of the bacteria.”
  • Chickenpox: (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/varicella/hcp/about-vaccine.html) The CDC states “it is not known how long a vaccinated person is protected against varicella.” The vaccine label also states “The duration of protection of VARIVAX is unknown.” https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/v/varivax/varivax_pi.pdf
  • Additionally, here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19593254) is an example of an outbreak of varicella in an elementary school with vaccine coverage of 97% (2-dose, 39%; 1-dose, 58%).
  • Shingles: https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/z/zostavax/zostavax_pi2.pdf) The Zostavax label states “the duration of protection beyond 4 years after vaccination with ZOSTAVAX is unknown.”

Additional each vaccine has groups of individuals that cannot receive the vaccine because of potential harm. This includes immunocompromised individuals, those allergic to particular components, pregnant women, and children under the age of 1 depending on the vaccine.

Read Part III here.

Take Action:

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2. Stay Informed – check our our Blog and Advocacy Home page for action items, follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook.

3. Call and Email your Senator and Assemblymembers – ask them to oppose bill S902/A969. Use this link to find your representatives’ phone number and send them a message.

4. Call and Email the Bill Sponsors: Senate President Sweeney: [email protected] / 856-251-9801; Assemblyman Conway  [email protected] / (856) 461-3997

If you live in Legislative District 11 sign our D11 Petition to protect NJ’s RE. 

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All information, data and material contained, presented, or provided here is for general information purposes only and is not to be construed as reflecting the knowledge or opinions of the publisher, and is not to be construed or intended as providing medical or legal advise. The decision to vaccinate and how you implement that decision is yours and yours alone. You are encouraged to consult with your medical professional and legal adviser.

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