Charts That Show How Well Vaccines Work

Those mortality charts pushing sanitation and clean water are pure propaganda

One of the cornerstone arguments used by anti-vaccine influencers is that vaccines don’t work.

One thing to understand about these kinds of mortality charts is that they use an inflated death rate to hide hundreds of deaths in the years just before a vaccine is introduced.

They often claim that it was only sanitation, clean water, improved hygiene, and better nutrition that stopped people from getting and dying from things like measles, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, and even smallpox.

Charts That Show How Well Vaccines Work

Of course, those arguments are all propaganda and are easily refuted.

For one thing, if it was just sanitation and clean water systems that eradicated all of those diseases, why didn’t it do it at the same time for all diseases?

Instead, we saw diphtheria cases and deaths drop to their lowest levels after the introduction of the DPT vaccine in 1948.

There were 410 diphtheria deaths in 1950...

We saw pertussis cases and deaths drop to their lowest levels after the introduction of the pertussis vaccine in 1948.

There were 1,118 pertussis deaths in 1950…

We saw polio cases and deaths drop to their lowest levels after the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1955.

There were 1,368 polio deaths in 1954…

We saw measles cases and deaths drop to their lowest levels after the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963.

There were 408 measles deaths in 1962…

We saw Hib cases and deaths drop to their lowest levels after the introduction of the Hib vaccine in 1988.

There were 219 deaths from Hib meningitis in children and about another 45 deaths from Hib epiglotittis each year just before the Hib vaccine was introduced…

We saw chicken pox cases and deaths drop to their lowest levels after the introduction of the chicken pox vaccine in 1995.

There were about 100 deaths from chickenpox each year before the chickenpox vaccine was introduced…

We saw meningococcal C cases and deaths drop to their lowest levels after the introduction of the meningococcal C vaccine in 1999.

We would have to wait for the meningococcal B vaccine to see any effect on meningococcal B cases and deaths. If better hygiene and santitation was the cure all of all diseases, why didn’t it take care of meningococcal C and B at the same time?

We saw invasive pneumococcal cases and deaths drop to their lowest levels after the introduction of the Prevnar vaccine in 2000.

Invasive pneumococcal cases and deaths (about 200 deaths each year) drop to their lowest levels after the introduction of the Prevnar vaccine in 2000

Time and again, it was once a vaccine was introduced that cases and deaths were finally brought under control.

That’s something you can’t hide in mortality charts!

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