If you got 2 doses of the MMR vaccine as a child, you’re probably fine. The vaccine is like 97% effective at preventing measles, and if you’re part of that 3% your symptoms will probably be milder that if you weren’t vaccinated. It’s a damn good vaccine. Even if you got only 1 dose that’s still considered to be 90-something percent effective.
Talk to your doctor, people with certain autoimmune conditions, the elderly, people born when they were only giving 1 dose of the vaccine or who received older vaccine formulas may need a booster. The rest of us who are vaccinated are almost certain to be fine.
The real risk is to children who haven’t been vaccinated yet because they’re too young, people who can’t receive the vaccine for health reasons like allergies or other unvaccinated adults, and people with compromised immune systems.
I can’t really find good numbers of what percent of the US overall is vaccinated, but if the current rates of children being vaccinated are anything to go by, it’s most of them. Even with all of the anti vax talk, it seems like somewhere north of 80% of children in the US are still getting their recommended vaccines from what I can find. This is mostly going to hit that 10-20-ish percent who aren’t vaccinated.
And the real tragedy that a good amount of the anti vax parents were actually vaccinated themselves as children and so get to enjoy that 97% immunity. They won’t be in much danger of catching measles but their children will be.
Otherwise, all of the usual advice applies, wash your hands, disinfect shared surfaces and equipment, cover your mouth when you cough, maybe wear a mask in public, do what you can to encourage your friends and family to get vaccinated if they aren’t.
If you got 2 doses of the MMR vaccine as a child, you’re probably fine. The vaccine is like 97% effective at preventing measles, and if you’re part of that 3% your symptoms will probably be milder that if you weren’t vaccinated. It’s a damn good vaccine. Even if you got only 1 dose that’s still considered to be 90-something percent effective.
Talk to your doctor, people with certain autoimmune conditions, the elderly, people born when they were only giving 1 dose of the vaccine or who received older vaccine formulas may need a booster. The rest of us who are vaccinated are almost certain to be fine.
The real risk is to children who haven’t been vaccinated yet because they’re too young, people who can’t receive the vaccine for health reasons like allergies or other unvaccinated adults, and people with compromised immune systems.
I can’t really find good numbers of what percent of the US overall is vaccinated, but if the current rates of children being vaccinated are anything to go by, it’s most of them. Even with all of the anti vax talk, it seems like somewhere north of 80% of children in the US are still getting their recommended vaccines from what I can find. This is mostly going to hit that 10-20-ish percent who aren’t vaccinated.
And the real tragedy that a good amount of the anti vax parents were actually vaccinated themselves as children and so get to enjoy that 97% immunity. They won’t be in much danger of catching measles but their children will be.
Otherwise, all of the usual advice applies, wash your hands, disinfect shared surfaces and equipment, cover your mouth when you cough, maybe wear a mask in public, do what you can to encourage your friends and family to get vaccinated if they aren’t.