How many children’s lives has the measles vaccine saved in 50 years? Around 90 million. Important to remind ourselves that vaccines save lives ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org - ThreadSky

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hetanshah.bsky.social • 88 days ago

How many children’s lives has the measles vaccine saved in 50 years?

Around 90 million.

Important to remind ourselves that vaccines save lives

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights?utm_source=OWID+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7aa7b8c617-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2e166c1fc1-77833dd717-537057534 @ourworldindata.org

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igmansfield.bsky.social•88 days ago

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hetanshah.bsky.social•88 days ago

And we could do the same for neglected tropical diseases
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/11/28/new-cures-for-africas-most-gruesome-diseases

wappingbloke.bsky.social•87 days ago

The challenge is that the deaths that don’t happen are much less visceral than the far fewer tragic cases arising from vax usage.

The human brain is much more reactive to those cases than it is qt rationally processing data like that above

desmond-hume.bsky.social•65 days ago

Over the course of his career, Maurice and his colleagues developed more than forty vaccines. Of the fourteen vaccines currently recommended in the United States, Maurice developed eight.”

desmond-hume.bsky.social•65 days ago

Anthony Fauci said this about him: “Maurice was perhaps the single most influential public health figure of the twentieth century, if one considers the millions of lives saved and the countless people who were spared suffering because of his work.

desmond-hume.bsky.social•65 days ago

Thank you, @hetanshah.bsky.social for this informative post. I’d like to add that the measles vaccine was developed by Maurice Hilleman. How few know how much we owe this man?

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