> For the first time, a map has been created that allows people to type in their ZIP code and see an estimated percentage of their neighbors who have been vaccinated against measles.
It’s not like it’s some groundbreaking thing to have a measles map. We just haven’t really needed one because measles was a problem that we already solved… with vaccines.
A_pirates_life4me on
What a weird map. VERY HIGH RISK. Total cases: 25. Out of a population of 40 million.
Anon44356 on
Developed nations who aren’t run by an orange piss baby don’t need a map.
KAugsburger on
One thing I didn’t like about the presentation from ABC was that at least at the ZIP code level they didn’t really make it clear that this modeling was specific to children under age 5. You have some communities where the model shows a low vaccination rate for those children but they still has a very high vaccination rate reported by schools for Kindergarten and 7th grade. It can produce some misleading conclusions if you are just assuming that those maps represent the entire population of children in the community.
Don’t get me wrong the data is interesting in the sense that it helps public health officials determine areas where more effort needs to made to address misinformation and access issues that are keeping down vaccination rates. Unfortunately, due to the decentralized nature of medical care in the US we don’t have the ability to determine the vaccination rates at a local level at a high level of accuracy until kids get to school age. It is much better if public health officials can be more proactive and addressing these issues before you have a large number of unvaccinated/undervaccinated kids in the school system.
SouthJerseyCyz on
Unless I’m missing something, this is only looking at vaccinate rates for children <5, Wouldn’t population density also be a key contributing factor to your likelihood of exposure?
Boss_Braunus on
Please include the map next time. This is a link to a video, and an article that does not include the map.
For those interested, here is the map: https://abcotvdata.github.io/us-vaccination-map/
grudginglyadmitted on
jesus christ my county has a 60% vaccination rate <5. Luckily measles hasn’t really hit my state yet, but it’s inevitable, and once it does it’s going to be really really bad.
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> For the first time, a map has been created that allows people to type in their ZIP code and see an estimated percentage of their neighbors who have been vaccinated against measles.
It’s not like it’s some groundbreaking thing to have a measles map. We just haven’t really needed one because measles was a problem that we already solved… with vaccines.
What a weird map. VERY HIGH RISK. Total cases: 25. Out of a population of 40 million.
Developed nations who aren’t run by an orange piss baby don’t need a map.
One thing I didn’t like about the presentation from ABC was that at least at the ZIP code level they didn’t really make it clear that this modeling was specific to children under age 5. You have some communities where the model shows a low vaccination rate for those children but they still has a very high vaccination rate reported by schools for Kindergarten and 7th grade. It can produce some misleading conclusions if you are just assuming that those maps represent the entire population of children in the community.
Don’t get me wrong the data is interesting in the sense that it helps public health officials determine areas where more effort needs to made to address misinformation and access issues that are keeping down vaccination rates. Unfortunately, due to the decentralized nature of medical care in the US we don’t have the ability to determine the vaccination rates at a local level at a high level of accuracy until kids get to school age. It is much better if public health officials can be more proactive and addressing these issues before you have a large number of unvaccinated/undervaccinated kids in the school system.
Unless I’m missing something, this is only looking at vaccinate rates for children <5, Wouldn’t population density also be a key contributing factor to your likelihood of exposure?
Please include the map next time. This is a link to a video, and an article that does not include the map.
For those interested, here is the map:
https://abcotvdata.github.io/us-vaccination-map/
jesus christ my county has a 60% vaccination rate <5. Luckily measles hasn’t really hit my state yet, but it’s inevitable, and once it does it’s going to be really really bad.