Twenty-plus years ago, Thomas Frank wrote a book called What’s the Matter With Kansas? in hopes of shedding some light on the new-ish at the time phenomenon of people actively and consistently voting against their own best interests. Obviously that wasn’t brand new — the Reagan era ushered in a whole generation of voters deeply affected by […]
More than you’d think. TB has geographic ties, so people in known high-risk areas generally get BCG, especially healthcare workers and people with autoimmune diseases.
The point stands, though. TB can come from unexpected vectors and there is no traditional vaccine offered to the public. Until that happens, it doesn’t make as much sense to blame tuberculosis on a state that may also be making boneheaded decisions regarding vaccines in general. Just the ones who would say no when it was offered.
I am now taking a hard look at voluntarily getting this vaccine for sure.
It might be hard to get since it’s not commonly used here.
Even the CDC website says that the tuberculosis vaccine is not commonly used in the US.
Yeah, hate to say it but I honestly don’t know if we can trust the current CDC website, considering the current administration is known for manipulating data.
If you’re going to be that paranoid and spread early misinformation, at least learn of ways to protect yourself like using the wayback machine or something similar. Guess the CDC is just cooked if one side is trying to shut it down and the other side is saying don’t trust it now lol.
This was mostly a joke, but at the very least the data on the CDC site is now stale.
That’s fair, but do you live in the US, and have you ever had a TB vaccine? The CDC info jibes with lived experience, so it’s unlikely it has been altered (yet) by the Trumpians. It seems short term all they have been able to do is take web sites and pages down. It will take longer to rewrite them.
And Kansas is not a high-risk area.