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Leblanc
3 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

I’ve read about this argument. We’ll see what happens in 50 years lol. 

Also good to know if ever traveling to the UK with small children. 

I'm happy to trust the thousands of doctors we have here who are happy to vaccinate us on what we actually need before we need it, happily advise us over the phone with a national hotline and offer emergency help 24/7 for free.

While still having all the options available to us if needs be with all the private doctors around.

3 hours ago, uo111 said:

That's because the UK pays for all of them and they don't want to pay for them. Individual families pay for it in the US so we aren't as price sensitive (though maybe we should be). I mean, chicken pox certainly isn't the most deadly disease for children so I can understand that.

But if you are an adult and haven't had it, you should get vaccinated. Governments and health plans make the assumption that everyone has had the chicken pox when they were young. Once you get to like 30 and haven't had it, I wouldn't take my chances, since it will just get worse and worse as you age.

PS: Vaccines "making it worse" is a hypothetical scenario they are using to justify not vaccinating, but with a population of 330 million, the US pretty much disproves that.

We recieve all of the following free of charge and offer the rest free when the case permits -

6-in-1 vaccine

Pneumococcal or pneumo jab (PCV)

Rotavirus vaccine

Men B vaccine

Hib/Men C vaccine

MMR vaccine

Children's flu vaccine

4-in-1 pre-school booster

HPV vaccine (girls only)

3-in-1 teenage booster

MenACWY vaccine

Not to mention you can just go and vaccinate or immunise yourself at a private place accordingly when you get to adulthood and haven't had it. 

The UK is heavily pro-vaccine. There isn't even an argument against that here. 

The point is with this particular disease, it is clearly fine to let kids get a natural version of the vaccine by having the mild illness. That's how our immune systems grow, now do not get me wrong we still need vaccines for very real, very serious diseases and this CAN be one of them but usually it isn't.

We offer the shingles vaccine too when you reach the age group most likely to get it.

 

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uo111
37 minutes ago, ThatBish said:

I'm happy to trust the thousands of doctors we have here who are happy to vaccinate us on what we actually need before we need it, happily advise us over the phone with a national hotline and offer emergency help 24/7 for free.

While still having all the options available to us if needs be with all the private doctors around.

We recieve all of the following free of charge and offer the rest free when the case permits -

6-in-1 vaccine

Pneumococcal or pneumo jab (PCV)

Rotavirus vaccine

Men B vaccine

Hib/Men C vaccine

MMR vaccine

Children's flu vaccine

4-in-1 pre-school booster

HPV vaccine (girls only)

3-in-1 teenage booster

MenACWY vaccine

Not to mention you can just go and vaccinate or immunise yourself at a private place accordingly when you get to adulthood and haven't had it. 

The UK is heavily pro-vaccine. There isn't even an argument against that here. 

The point is with this particular disease, it is clearly fine to let kids get a natural version of the vaccine by having the mild illness. That's how our immune systems grow, now do not get me wrong we still need vaccines for very real, very serious diseases and this CAN be one of them but usually it isn't.

We offer the shingles vaccine too when you reach the age group most likely to get it.

 

I’m not saying the uk is anti-vax. I’m also not saying it’s a bad decision. All I’m saying is that if money was no issue, the whole population would be vaccinated against varicella too.

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Whispering
4 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

There is also a Shingles vaccine for older people in the US. 

There is no reason to not vaccinate in the US. 

Insurance won’t pay for the shingles vaccine until age 60, and more and more adults in their thirties to fifties are now getting shingles. Also, many doctor’s offices and clinics don’t carry the vaccine. 

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Morphine Prince
17 minutes ago, Whispering said:

Insurance won’t pay for the shingles vaccine until age 60, and more and more adults in their thirties to fifties are now getting shingles. Also, many doctor’s offices and clinics don’t carry the vaccine. 

Yes, but it’s unrelated to vaccination. 

Kids who were the first to get the routine CP vaccine are in their 20’s right now. 

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