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true or false: more and more people think that vaccines are bad

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true

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true or false: we slayed smallpox

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we didddd
thanks to vaccines

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invasive pneumococcal disease with intro of pediatric anti pneumococcus vaccine

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-pretty much in all age groups yeeted out except 73% in 16-64 years and 90% for 65%-84yrs

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what happened with rotavirus vaccines

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-they made a vaccine for mexicans and the number of deaths droppedddd

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with vaccines, we are building our boat……

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learning how to sail and sailing it at the same time

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how many deaths due to covid

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7 millions

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covid vaccines are estimated to have saved….

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20 million people

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hiv killed how many peeps

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40 million in 42 years

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how many doses of covid were administered

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13.53 billion doses

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true or false: more than 50% of peeps had more than 1 dose

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true: 70.6%

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true or false: 32.9% in poorer countries have more than 1 dose

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true

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how many doses of covid vaccines delivered oer day

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13 000

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which company did not give out free vaccines to poorer countries

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moderna

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true or false: vaccines are political

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true

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what is covax

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rich countries initiative to give out free vaccines to poorer countries

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which countries did only give out free vaccines to specific countries

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china and russia gave free vaccines to communist countries

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what did people do when they saw that astrazeneca’s vaccines cause thromboembolic events

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they gave the vaccines to covax

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what is the cost for meeting world wide needs per year

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34 billions

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billion spent by rich peeps in silly things

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1735 billion

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what are the main 3 expenditures

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military, health and education

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true or false: the more money you spend on military, the less money in health

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when did we say we will slay polio and by when did we say that we would have done it

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2004 by 2010, we just had to vaccinate enough peeps

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what happened to the slay of polio

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-9/11 happened and people in the middle east stopped trusting us and then were like fuck you we are not gonna get vaccinated

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where do we still have polio

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  • account for 90% of polio cases
    -Eastern Afghanistan
  • Eastern DRC
  • Northern Yemen
  • Northern Nigeria
  • South-central Somalia
  • Southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
  • Tete province Northern Mozambique
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true or false: more people died trying to give out free polio vaccines than deaths due to polio
true 109 deaths
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true or false: companies before were not making a lot of money due to vaccines
true
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what was the estimate of the rate of growth with money with vaccines by 2011
18% a year to 30 billion by 2011 which is faster than the 4.4% for the pharmaceutical industry tho they made so much moneyyy
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true or false vaccines used to be the zorros of the pharma world
yeah because they did not make a lot of money and they woulf protect the peeps -now people are like fuck you scientist and docs because they know how much bih pharma is making
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the 5 largest vaccine manifacturers spend.../hour on research and development
4 million and that was before covid
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how was pasteur able to give the vaccines
he put sheep unvacc and vacc to show that his vaccine worked against anthrax
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true or false: the us trusts vaccines less
true
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what was the term mostly searched in anti things vs least searched
-vaccination -least: immunization
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who said that vaccines cause autism
dr andrew wakefield -took lancet 13 yrs before taking out his fucked up research
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what did jay gordon say
that the polio vaccines was given for silly reasons basically because polio is so rare and 1 in 3 million peeps got paralysed but 1 in 300 000 dies of polio
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true or false: most people see vaccine and death they are like omg
so true
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true or false: there is more formaldehyde in a apple than vaccines
false it is a pear
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what is the story of jude
kid of an antivax mom who dies and now her mom is like slay vaccines
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is there a safe vaccine
nah there is none, but the benefits always outweight the cons
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how many peeps die due to bathtub injuries
350 die/year
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true or false: there is just 1 strain of hcv that cause cervix cancer
false there are multiple and most of the vaccines protect against the rich peeps strain
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true or false: babies make very poor responses to polysaccharides
true
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most people of which age category die due to strepto coccus pneumoniae
infants and old peeps
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how many serotypes of strepto pneumoniae
90
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true or false: strepto pneumoniae is not enveloped
false it is encapsulated
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what is essential in strepto pneumoniae
antibodies aka opsinization and phagocytosis
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main serotypes of strepto pneumoniae in rich vs poor countries
-rich: 14. 6b, 19f, 18c, 9v, 23f -poor: 6b, 14, 8,5,1,19f
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coverage of the vaccine in rich vs poor for pneumonia
-rich: 92% -poor: 45%
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Case of Haemophilus influenzae: hib
whole world * devastating CNS disease * conjugate vaccine (mid-1970s) * disease largely eradicated in wealthy countries by the late 1970s
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Case of Haemophilus influenzae: hia
* indigenous communities worldwide * devastating CNS disease * rates of Hia disease in some Canadian communities higher than Hib ever was * little-to-no interest in a vaccine
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