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Today Show on Immunizations Leads with San Diego Measles Outbreak

Category: Public Health
Posted on: March 24, 2008 3:09 PM, by DrugMonkey

The Today Show took up the vaccination issue today and used the recent San Diego measles situation as the lure.

Matt Lauer served up a softball for his physician guest with this remark:

"It seems to me the priority should be putting an end to this debate over whether these vaccines cause other conditions"

For a mainstream media piece (and let's face it, we're talking the Today Show) this was a pretty good answer to Lauer's possibly rhetorical question. The antivaxer family in the lead got minimal play and the majority was the medical community response to antivaxer positioning. Nicely done.


[Update: I just noticed that revere has a post on immunizing children against influenza up. Yeah, what he said.]

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