Guest opinion: Tom Thomas: Vaccines keep our society healthy

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Guest opinion: Tom Thomas: Vaccines keep our society healthy

By Tom Thomas I remember getting the measles in 1962, a year before the vaccine (presently MMR, which also protects against mumps and chicken pox) was available. All of my friends also got the measles sooner or later. I recovered, but the same cannot be said for the more than 400 kids in the U.S. who died from the disease in that year alone. Another 48,000 were hospitalized. For the last 20 years, with the benefit of about 93% of the population …