{"id":10260,"date":"2024-03-21T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T20:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&p=10260"},"modified":"2024-11-30T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T00:30:04","slug":"can-living-without-modern-medicine-make-you-healthier","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/can-living-without-modern-medicine-make-you-healthier\/","title":{"rendered":"Can living without modern medicine make you healthier?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An old claim is getting\u00a0new life<\/a>: that Amish people don\u2019t vaccinate and their children are the healthiest people in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”The Facts:” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text css=””]While the Amish as a population might be\u00a0under-vaccinated<\/a>, they are by no means unvaccinated. In a 2011\u00a0study<\/a>, of those who responded, only 14% said their children received no vaccines. This 2021\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0indicates that about 25% of the Amish respondents would get vaccinated against COIVD.<\/p>\n

But were the Amish protected from COVID? The \u201cstudy\u201d that claims that\u00a0COVID death rates among Amish communities are an \u201cincredible 90 times lower than the rest of fully-vaxxed and boostered, mask-wearing and locked-down America\u201d was simply tech millionaire Steve Kirsch inserting himself into an Amish community and asking them to name people who died. He\u00a0\u201cdid some calculations and thought there might have been a few, maybe five, Amish individuals who had died. . .\u00a0 this implies that the Amish died at a rate 90 times lower than the infection fatality rate of the rest of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, having a discussion with one community and doing some back-of-napkin calculations isn\u2019t a study. Both the information gathering and the math are inadequate to draw any conclusions. And we are left with nothing supporting Amish children being the world\u2019s healthiest people. (Just as we previously found that the myth of there being “no Autistic Amish people<\/a>” is likely also false.)<\/p>\n

Lastly, according to news sources, the Amish were actually\u00a0hit<\/a>\u00a0hard<\/a>\u00a0by COVID.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claims that the Amish avoid vaccines and are the healthiest are false. Studies show the Amish do vaccinate, and their COVID death rates aren\u2019t lower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[199,189,188,218],"class_list":["post-10260","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-childhood-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-covid-19","jtf_topic_subjects-mrna-vaccines","jtf_topic_subjects-vaccine-safety","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11447,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/10260\/revisions\/11447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=10260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}