Doubt: The Happiest Place on Earth
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The 2015 Disneyland measles outbreak was a pivotal moment in explaining the vaccine hesitation we see today. The outbreak made clear that number of people opting out of vaccination was significant. But it also changed the people protesting vaccines. Before that, activists speaking out about vaccines had mainly been parents concerned about the safety of their kids. California's push to get rid of vaccine exemptions in the wake of the outbreak changed the conversation. It became political. It became about choice and freedom and democracy.
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| 0:31.1 | Rhett was just two and a half years old when he was diagnosed with leukemia. |
| 0:38.4 | It was 2010, and Rhett and his family were living in Court Madera, California. |
| 0:44.4 | It's a little town just over the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco in Marin County. |
| 0:50.2 | When Ratt was first diagnosed with cancer, we lived in the hospital for 87 nights. |
| 0:56.0 | Like my wife and I traded every 24 hours. |
| 0:59.2 | I mean, he was sick. |
| 1:01.4 | Okay? He couldn't go home or anything. |
| 1:03.6 | That's Carl, Rhett's dad. |
| 1:06.2 | Kormadera is the kind of place you might describe as crunchy. |
| 1:10.4 | People shop at the farmer's market, eat organic, |
| 1:14.2 | and many of them also choose not to vaccinate their kids. |
| 1:19.5 | Carl and his wife Jody knew vaccination rates were lower there. |
| 1:24.7 | Rett's doctors had even warned them about it. |
| 1:27.8 | The reason Rett's parents were concerned about this had to do with his cancer. |
| 1:34.2 | Chemotherapy had wiped out any immunity Rhett had from previous vaccines |
| 1:38.6 | and also made him too weak to get new ones. |
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