Boyd Wilson Mrs. Dodson English II-Pre AP April 8th, 2024. Vaccinations are a fundamental part of our medical system and have saved millions of lives. With the recent Covid-19 pandemic, debates occurred regarding the necessity of vaccinations due to individuals questioning the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Individuals are using this reasoning as a way to justify not getting vaccinated, and in doing so they are putting themselves and others at risk. To combat a future health crisis caused by people declining vaccination, vaccines should be made mandatory because they reduce the risk of illness, save lives and are safe to use. Vaccines should be mandatory because they play a major role in keeping society healthy by reducing the risk …show more content…
If a vaccinated individual is infected with a deadly disease, the individual already has been exposed to a template of the virus from the vaccine. This allows the immune system to use the template to fight the virus, producing antibodies, which can be the difference between life or death. Immunity from vaccinations saves lives by preventing deadly diseases from being as strong and mandatory vaccines would save even more lives because the vaccinated individuals would have enhanced immunity. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that getting vaccinated can lead to herd immunity, which decreases the ability of the virus to travel from person to person and as a result the entire community is less likely to get sick (“Vaccines Protect Your Community”). Herd immunity especially helps to protect at-risk people such as the elderly and immunocompromised because they have a weakened immune system and they can more easily get infected with diseases. While the disease will potentially be less potent because of their vaccines, the disease can still cause serious harm or death. Mandatory vaccines could help protect these people because the community as a whole would …show more content…
Vaccines are the safest of all medicines because they are tested and studied in a larger population than most drugs (“Vaccinations Are Safe: Explaining Why”). Vaccines have been proven to be safe after extensive testing. If vaccines were made mandatory, there would be significantly less health risks in the community getting vaccinated. The extensive testing that vaccinations undergo can disprove anti-vaccine statements because people say that vaccines are not tested enough. However, more safety tests are done on vaccines than on the medicines taken every morning. After vaccines are released to the public, federal agencies like the FDA, CDC, and other departments that regulate citizen safety continue to monitor the vaccine to make sure there are little to no adverse side effects (“Vaccine Safety”). The constant monitoring done by the federal government ensures that the vaccines continue to be safe and effective. Worries about safety concerns with mandatory vaccines will be put to rest because the government ensures the vaccines people receive are safe and constantly monitors them to ensure their safety. Vaccines are among the safest medicines and
I Believe that all vaccinations should not be mandatory in the US. I think people deserve the chance to decide what is best for them. Whether it be personal, religious, or health reasons I believe that parents should be able to educate themselves and choose what would be best for their child. While many people agree that vaccinations should be mandatory, there are many reasons as to why they aren't necessary anymore and risks they could present if taken. For example, more deadly diseases have already
The Effects of Vaccinations Holding children’s hands while crossing the road, buckling them up in the car, and teaching them to stay away from strangers, are all important when it comes to child safety. But what about vaccinations? It is necessary that each child be properly vaccinated for many reasons, but most importantly for their health and well-being. With the help of vaccinations, many diseases have been eradicated and many lives have been saved. If parents do not properly vaccinate their
serious, and have become common. For this reason, the common corresponding vaccinations for each illness along with a possible few others should now become mandatory, as doing so will be effective not only personally, but to an entire society. By receiving vaccinations one can easily improve and preserve his or her health as well as children and those around them. The first reason that vaccinations should become mandatory is that common vaccines, such as the flu shot, hepatitis B, and meningitis
Vaccinations Should Be Required Vaccinations have been very helpful for all ages of people over many centuries. Vaccinations help protect us from infectious diseases. Most people believe in medicine because it improves people’s health. The first vaccination was performed by Edward Jenner in 1796 stated in the article, “The History of Vaccines And Immunization: Familiar Patterns, New Challenges.” (Stern and Markel n. pag.) Vaccinations have improved tremendously since that time frame. Many people
A vaccination is the injection of weak disease-causing agents that help the body develop immunity against specific infectious diseases ("Why Are Childhood Vaccines So Important?"). It is through these vaccinations that children will develop immunity without suffering from the actual diseases that vaccines prevent ("Why Are Childhood Vaccines So Important?"). The field of medicine has come a long way. Vaccines are considered to be one of the public health’s greatest accomplishments to date. With the
be eradicated entirely or immunized against is widely known, why shouldn’t vaccines be mandatory? Vaccines should be mandatory due to the fact that they protect children as well as those that are immunocompromised, grant immunity to infectious diseases, and because they create a healthier environment for children. If there is an effective method for ensuring that these children don’t have to come into contact with these diseases, we should clearly advocate for it. Before detailing the benefits
Protecting Our Communities: Why Vaccines Should be Mandatory For parents, hearing their children cry is like a stab to their heart. The restless nights are full of anguish for the parents, and pain for a child with measles. This disease, and many like it, can be completely eradicated simply by taking children to get vaccinated. Throughout history, plagues and diseases have jeopardized civilizations and cultures. Modern medicine now provides protection against these diseases; it is a shame some parents
trying to further their cause lead to a hatred against their movement. Vaccines, while an important aspect in maintaining proper health they should not be absolutely mandatory. The choice of vaccination should be left to the parents, as it is their right to nurture and care for their kids as they see fit(Anthony). Furthermore, a governmental mandate on vaccination causes many issues, it denies rights to the parents, it denies right to the grown adults and it taxes those who don’t comply. This strategy
parents might not realize is that vaccinations are ultimately the best way to defend and protect the precious lives of their children. Prior to the period of vaccinations, parents would have never imagined we would be able to successfully protect future generations from deadly diseases. According to an article titled, “History of Immunizations”, written by the American Academy of Pediatrics, in the 1920’s, diphtheria
Rai Shaw Mr. Kegley Health Science Technology- 3rd 18 September 2015 Immunization As of today, vaccines are mandatory in children. There are two types of arguments, one side is for parents being able to choose to vaccinate their child(ren). The other side is defending the vaccines, saying it is good to be mandatory. The ideal situation would be for both to be combined. Many people would choose to not vaccinate their children if they had the choice because they do not know all of the information
Mandatory flu vaccination for health care providers (HCP) and students has been a controversial issue that create a needed discussion about the rights and boundaries of individuals who choose careers in these fields. It is argued that nurses have a duty to protect their patients and throughout nursing history nurses have championed for the prevention of communicable diseases through the use of vaccinations to their patients and communities. Admittedly it is true that nurses are in environments with
Good morning, the issue I will be discussing today is should vaccinations be a parental choice as it has recently been discussed in the media. I have based my arguments in riposte to the news article “no Jab, no pay policy passes in the parliament” published in abc online on 23rd November 2015. For a moment, let’s all put ourselves in the shoes of a parent. As a parent, you make educated choices about your child's health and safety every day. You research which car seat has the highest safety ratings
if your child was to catch a deadly disease at school from another student that had not been vaccinated. For many years, vaccinations have been forced unto babies and smaller children to help prevent a future epidemic such as the ones from many centuries ago. Later within the years after vaccinations seem to have been proven effective and slightly popular, they became mandatory for a student to be vaccinated before being able to enroll into a school. Most parents went along with the new rule ,but
Vaccinations should be Mandatory “Vaccines are the most effective tool we have to prevent infectious diseases… Most childhood vaccines produce immunity about 90-100% of the time” (Vaccines). If it weren’t for vaccines we would be having bad epidemics like we did in the earlier 1900’s. Vaccinations have been proven useful and highly popular among societies. Immunity is much higher when majority of the community is vaccinated. We started to have vaccines around 1885 with the rabies vaccine. Throughout
There are many people that believe that immunizations should not be mandatory in the United States becuase they contain harmful ingredients and they are unencessary for small illnesses that children receive. According to the article “Vaccine Ingredients- A Comprehensive Guide”, “Vaccines contain harmful ingredients. Some physicians believe thimerosal, an organic mercury compound found in trace amounts in one flu vaccine for children and other vaccines for adults, is linked to autism” (VaxTruth).