It’s not clear if these are people who had chosen not to vaccinate changing their minds or people who would have vaccinated at the normal time vaccinating early.
Probably the former. Routine vaccinations like MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) aren’t arbitrarily timed. They’re given at an age when they can elicit the most immunity for a lifespan. And earlier isn’t always better. You’d probably have to pay extra and/or convince a doctor to deviate from best practice to prematurely immunize. My money’s on getting late vaccinations they decided not to get earlier at the recommended age. It’s an interesting study of human behaviour. We know consequences of climate change don’t typically operate immediately enough for fear-motivated behaviour to penetrate cult-like denial (ie, anti-vaxx) en masse
The article mentions that authorization has been granted to give babies an early measles vaccine in addition to the regular one.
I see. Thanks!
The main dataset I saw was of a significant uptick in vaccination rates at 6 or 9 months (can’t remember) and a year old. Those are ahead of standard vaccination schedules but not unheard of
