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August is National Immunization Awareness Month
Vaccination is the best protection against preventable diseases!
Protect yourself, those around you, and your loved ones with a simple prick. This August, get back on the vaccine track with National Immunization Awareness Month! With the amount of misinformation and overwhelming feelings regarding vaccinations, finding information from trusted sources can add to your concerns. Fulcro is here to help you find vaccine information, facts, what vaccines you and your loved ones might need, and where to look for more help and information. Immunization is vital to protect your family, the elderly, and immunocompromised people and prevent costly diseases.
Reasons to get vaccinated
According to the National Health Council, with the new and numerous COVID variants, any delay in routine vaccinations is more critical than ever. We encourage you to talk to your doctor or health care provider to get caught up.
- Keep kids safe. Vaccinations prevent your child from getting diseases resulting in severe complications and death.
- Between life & death. People with impaired immune systems cannot develop immunity even with vaccination. Therefore, their protection comes from the community being vaccinated.
- Diseases are expensive! Vaccination costs less than medical bills.
- Healthy people can get sick. Your immune system can fight diseases better and faster!
- Preventable diseases. Adults need to keep their vaccines up to date to keep their childhood immunity from wearing off and safety preventive measures.
Facts
According to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, around 50,000 U.S adults died yearly from vaccine-preventable diseases before the pandemic. Vaccinated children born during 1994-2018 will prevent over 936,000 early deaths, 8 million hospitalizations, and 419 million illnesses in the U.S.
Here are some other quick facts to help with some of your concerns:
- Pregnant people need vaccines too! Even the flu can pose a significant threat to those who are pregnant due to changes in their system as a whole.
- Whooping cough. Getting a Tdap vaccine can prevent deaths from whooping cough, which has over 10k-50k yearly cases.
- Not so common but spreadable. Even though some diseases are no longer common, they can still spread fast if not vaccinated.
- It prevents cancers. Over 35k people in the U.S are diagnosed with cancers from HPV yearly. It also lowers your chances of getting liver cancer by getting the Hepatitis B vaccine.
- Vaccines are very safe! Vaccines go through years of testing and researching before the FDA and CDC license them. The side effects are usually mild and last for a few days.
Resources
Navigating the world of vaccines and going through all the hoops can be frustrating! Even though we recommend you talk to your doctor beforehand, here are some tools to help you make sense of it all.
- The Adult Vaccine Assessment Tool. Answer the questions and see what vaccines you or your loved ones may need.
- Learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine. Bust common myths and learn the facts about the vaccines.
- Paying for vaccines. Private insurance covers certain vaccines, and you can get help with coverage if you lack insurance.
- Traveling? From common vaccines to malaria, find out what vaccines you need.
Choosing to vaccinate goes a long way for everyone and can keep you from getting deadly sick. You have the power to protect against vaccine-preventable diseases. For more information, visit the CDC and our blog site! Don’t forget to share this blog to spread awareness.
References:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/events/niam/index.html
https://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/hw255342
https://www.nfid.org/2021/08/02/how-to-support-vaccination-let-us-count-the-ways/