If you were born before 1989 in the US, this is your reminder to either find your childhood vaccination records or get your antibody titers checked. Before 1989 a single MMR vaccine was considered full protection, and something like 8% of people don’t achieve immunity from a single vaccine (falls to like 2% with 2 vaccines).
My parents are immigrants and didn’t have the best understanding of vaccine schedules.
I ask my doc at my last physical to check my measles antibodies.
My parents did good
Good advice, I was flagged at my university for not being up to date with immunizations and I thought it was a mistake. Nope — they needed another MMR for this exact reason.
I had 2x MMR. Just got a 3rd shot anyway, just in case.
EDIT: For more context, the Costco pharmacist told me (even with 2 shots) its immunity does wane over time. She said I’d probably be fine skipping in my age bracket, but I’m in Texas and I don’t like ‘probably.’
If insurers remove measles coverage, we can say that the problem has gotten out of control.
Why would health insurance cover measles? They cover the measles vaccine. That’s the bare minimum you could do to not get the measles.
Honestly I’d almost say that any conquered disease shouldn’t be covered unless they are vaccinated or provide a valid medical reason why they can’t be…and those exemptions should be just as hard as any other PA process. I’d almost say that should extend to life insurance, too.
This would be like complaining about car insurance not paying out because you blew a 0.25. No, you fucked around, now you find out.
Shame that most of us are terrible about keeping track of paperwork…but that would probably be the one and only time I’d be rooting for the insurance companies.
a spin on donvict’s covid playbook:
‘If We Stop Testing, We’d Have Fewer Cases’
‘if we don’t count them, it doesn’t exist’…
“But we better fucking count autism cases because of reasons!”
- RFK
I feel bad for measles.
Well… you’ll find out eventually, one way or the other.
