Hitting the Road to Advocate for Immunization
The vast majority of pro-vaxxers are content advocating behind a screen--whether they are emailing lawmakers, commenting on social media, or sharing online articles. But when…
Working Together
Keeping communities free from vaccine-preventable disease is teamwork. As it turns out, advocating for on-time immunization is also team work. Over the past few years,…
Autism’s Professor Harold Hill
It's hard to talk about vaccines or autism without mentioning the sometime gastroenterologist, Andrew Wakefield. Almost everyone has at least a passing familiarity with Wakefield,…
Measles in Minnesota
Yesterday afternoon, the Minnesota Department of Health reported that 60 people (mostly children) in four counties across the state. This measles outbreak is the worst…
What are these diseases we vaccinate against?
When I first had babies, long before I became The Vaccine Lady, I took my children to be immunized as a matter of course, without…
Vaccines and Legislation
The headlines last week were nearly catastrophic, declaring that HHS Secretary Tom Price had made statements about letting states do whatever they want to as…
What’s up with All These Outbreaks?
A few months ago, I came across an article claiming that we can blame the anti-vaccine movement for the mumps cases popping up in college…
I Vaccinated!
I've got a secret to tell you. All those "I voted" stickers you see on election day? Those aren't your reward for voting. You might…
Building on Momentum
August is National Immunization Awareness Month, and we hope your social media feeds have been inundated with vaccine talk. But we need to remember that…
Social Media is Being Infected
If you are on Facebook or Twitter in the next month, you might notice measles, influenza, mumps, and polio cropping up on profile pictures and…