What is the Difference Between Treating a Vaccinated Or Unvaccinated Child?
Well, for one thing, all the hospitalized kids have been unvaccinated.
Believe it or not, while it is nice to know the vaccine status of a child or adult when they are sick, that isn’t necessarily going to change their treatment that much.
There certainly isn’t any reason for Pierre Kory, an internist who had his certifications revoked by the American Board of Internal Medicine, to think that a hospital is fixated on a child’s vaccination status.
What is the Difference Between Treating a Vaccinated Or Unvaccinated Child?
To be sure, Pierre Kory, Polly Tommey, and Brian Hooker are talking about the unvaccinated children in Texas who recently died with measles.
Did it matter that they were unvaccinated?
Well, yeah, that’s almost certainly why they were in the hospital and why they died!
It is pretty much unheard of for someone who is vaccinated to die when they get measles.
“No, I didn’t get vaccinated because measles is benign. A few kids might get complications, but I trust in my doctors and my health care system to take care of me and just treat the infection.”
Pierre Kory
Measles is not benign, despite what Kory continues to say.
If you want to be enraged about something, and you should, it’s how anti-vaccine influencers are saying measles is benign after two previously healthy kids have died!
What is the Difference Between Treating a Vaccinated Or Unvaccinated Child?
But why do they have to continue to include in the medical record that these kids were unvaccinated?
Well, mostly it is because kids who are completely vaccinated typically don’t get measles. And their vaccination status is simply part of their health history. It helps explain why they got sick. Without it, every time someone looked at the patient’s chart they would wonder why these kids got measles!
They would ask if they were vaccinated.
But there is another reason, especially as these kids likely didn’t have any vaccines.
An unvaccinated child is at risk for other vaccine-preventable diseases besides measles, including some that might be secondary infections when you have measles, including pneumonia and meningitis.
It is good to be aware of the extra risk for Hib and Strep pneumo infections, etc., infections that vaccinated kids might be able to avoid.
And the biggest difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated child who has an illness?
“Tell me what the difference is treating a vaccinated or unvaccinated child who has an illness? Why does it matter?”
Pierre Kory
The unvaccinated child will likely be much sicker!