What polls show about Americans’ views on childhood vaccine mandates
Washington (AP) – Most Americans say that children should be vaccinated to go to school. But as Florida planned to be The first state to eliminate the necessity of childhood vaccineUS adults are also more likely to think that these vaccines are important than decimal years ago.
Routine Childhood vaccine rates fallAnd less American – especially Republicans – now says that the vaccination of children is extremely important. The poll shows that concerns about personal freedom and government influence for the relatively small but influential American group that oppose childhood vaccines stand out.
Childhood vaccines prevent 4 million deaths worldwide every year, US Disease Control and Prevention Centers. And they not only protect individuals; They create “herd immunity ında in a community. This is when enough people have immunity to stop the uncontrolled spread of a disease. It keeps everyone safe by preventing the outbreaks that can make the vulnerable sick.
Recent research shows the views of childhood vaccines and how they have changed.
Americans extensively support vaccination obligation
Florida’s movement is an important separation from decades of public policies and research, which shows that vaccines are safe and the most effective way to stop the spread of infectious diseases.
Furthermore, the mainstream of vaccination requirements continues to the public to the public, but some polls show that the possibility of adopting vaccination requirements of US adults is less than decades.
Approximately 8 out of 10 US adults Harvard/SSRS SURVEY Since March, parents, including the majority of democrats and Republicans to go to school to go to school measles, mumps and measles such as prevented diseases such as children, such as children said. And approximately 7 of the 10 US adults New York Times/IPSOS SURVEY For others, healthy children should be vaccinated for others.
2024 GALLUP SURVEY However, he found a narrower division, but about half of the adults should require the government’s children’s children to be overcome against infectious diseases such as measles, he said the government should remain outside half.
This is a dramatic change from 1991, when another questionnaire found that 81% of the Americans said that the government should need childhood vaccines.
Republicans’ vaccines are less likely to see less
The reduction of support for childhood vaccination needs is mostly directed by Republicans. The 2024 Gallup survey found that 60%of the Republicans opposed the obligation to vaccination.
At the same time, republicans’ vaccines are more likely to see. In the Gallup survey, only a quarter of the Republicans said that the instilling parents’ children was “extremely important” compared to 6 out of 10 democrats.
The two parties began to differentiate the issue before the COVİD-19 PANDEM, but this gap expanded significantly after 2019, when Republicans were more likely to eliminate the importance of childhood vaccines.
A little more than half of the Americans were worried that more people who chose to be overcome by childhood diseases would lead to more epidemics of infectious diseases. AP-NORC survey from JanuaryBut the Democrats were more concerned with Republicans or independents.
Many of them felt wrong allegations about the risks of vaccines
Since the leading figures such as Kennedy refuse to accept the unity of scientific mind that childhood vaccines are not caused by autism, An April KFF survey It shows that she heard or read the wrong claim that the measles, mumps and measles vaccines, also known as MMR vaccines of approximately 6 of the 10 US adults, have been proved to cause autism in children.
According to KFF, he heard the claim that taking a measles vaccine about one -third of measles was more dangerous than infected with measles.
Very few US adults – about 5% – thinks that each claim is “absolutely true ,, but less than half of each of them is“ absolutely wrong ,, it expresses important numbers.
Vaccine has to be more than security about the election
However, another questionnaire suggests that concerns about parental rights may play a greater role than safety concerns.
Harvard/SSRS survey in March, among those who do not support routine childhood vaccine requirements, said that about 8 out of 10 people have chosen to instill a “important reason” for this opposition, whether the parents’ children are vaccinated.
40 %less vaccinated opposition, security concerns about security, he said.
