The Pros And Cons Of A Vaccine

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One of the questions that came to mind while researching that helped deepen my understanding of the unit was "Do the risks of getting a vaccine outweigh the risks of not getting a vaccine?" I thought about this question myself and concluded that the risks of getting a vaccine do not outweigh the risks of not getting a vaccine. It is evident that getting vaccines can cause other complications, such as the body not being able to produce enough antibodies to fight off the virus, however, this case is really rare. Moreover, even if someone were to get the virus from the vaccine, the form of the virus would be less severe than if they were to actually get the virus. Also, most childhood vaccines produce immunity about 90 - 100% of the time (vaccines.gov) therefore vaccines are proven to be pretty effective. Based on these reasons the risks of getting a vaccine do not outweigh the risks of not getting a vaccine, as not getting a vaccine is putting you at risk of acquiring the disease, and complications from a vaccine are pretty rare. This question helped deepen my …show more content…

I answered this question by thinking to myself about how one person not getting vaccinated could affect others, and I realized that since diseases can spread really quickly if one person were to not receive a vaccine it may only cause a few people to get the disease but then those people would also go and spread the disease to more people, therefore one person not getting vaccinated affects many people because it puts other people's lives at risk, this is similar to the domino effect or the food chain. This question helped deepen my understanding of the unit Immunization because it made me actually think about how an individual's actions can cause so many other people to get sick, and this is again why immunization is so

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