Task: 602.4.17-10

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Shayla Mercer WGU Texas Online EFT Task: 602.4.17-10 I chose to discuss childhood inoculations. Would I inoculate my child as per the Center for Disease Control’s recommendations? The answer is yes I would. There are two different viewpoints on this particular topic. There are parents who view that it is unnecessary and not safe for your child to be vaccinated and there are the parents who believe you should get your children vaccinated to make sure they stay healthy and won’t get a deadly disease. My viewpoint on this topic is also kind of sensitive because my almost 5 year old son has been tested for autism and it is hard to research autism without coming up on the opinions that the vaccinations will cause autism. I still stand by my decision to vaccinate my son and still went on with vaccination my second son. My viewpoint is even if it is proven that the vaccinations “cause” autism my child cannot die from being autistic. Whereas if my child gets one of the viruses or diseases from not being vaccinated it can be fatal to not only my child but spread to other children who are not vaccinated. The evidence to support my viewpoint is that there is still no concrete evidence supporting the theory that getting your child vaccinated causes things such as autism and that it will weaken their immune systems. I read “According to a 2003 report by researchers at the Pediatric Academic Society, childhood vaccinations in the US prevent about 10.5 million cases of infectious illness and 33,000 deaths per year.”( "Vaccines ProCon.org", n.d., p. xx) If you were to not get your child their vaccinations they are at risk for getting the disease/virus and this could be fatal, and it is not only bad for them but could spread to other children as well this increases the risk of spreading the disease whereas if they were all vaccinated there would be no risk of
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