Not one case of measles in Scotland for three years, 95% vaccination and the Herald’s health correspondent tries to suggest it’s like the West Midlands here too

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As a genuine and scary surge in measles cases after plummeting vaccination rates among young children explodes in parts of England, especially London and the West Midlands, the Herald’s Helen McUrdle, yesterday, asks:

Measles, MMR, vaccine hesitancy: How at risk is Scotland?

and suggests:

The West Midlands region of England is in the grip of its worst measles outbreak since the 1990s, while uptake of the MMR vaccine in Scotland is at it lowest level since records began in 2014.

Her report is packed full of England’s data and a Roald Dahl story.

There’s no sign of the above graph showing zero cases in Scotland for the last three years, nor is there of this:

93.3% of children had the first dose of MMR vaccine by 24 months of age. This rose to 95.8% for children who had reached age 5.

95% is the WHO target figure.

In Leicester only 79.2% have been vaccinated, on a par with Pakistan and Namibia. The average for England is 84.5%, well below the WHO recommended figure of 95%

Measles is still a worry but not for the reasons McUrdle likes – Around 12 000 vehicles cross into Scotland every day from England. Can you travel into the EU with measles?

Sources:

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/immunisation-and-vaccine-preventable-diseases-quarterly-report/immunisation-and-vaccine-preventable-diseases-quarterly-report-january-to-march-2023-q1/results-and-commentary/#

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/childhood-immunisation-statistics-scotland/childhood-immunisation-statistics-scotland-quarter-ending-30-september-2023/#:~:text=93.3%25%20of%20children%20had%20the,91.0%25%20by%20age%206%20years.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/p1116-global-measles.html#:~:text=This%20takes%20the%20estimated%20number,relentlessly%20increasing%20threat%20to%20children

16 thoughts on “Not one case of measles in Scotland for three years, 95% vaccination and the Herald’s health correspondent tries to suggest it’s like the West Midlands here too”

  1. O/T Sorry,
    Could not let this one get lost

    Sir Tom Hunter saying Ireland has a £60billion surplus and Scotland has a £30billion deficit.
    He forgot to say that Ireland was an independent country and he also seemed to back Mone but run down SNP and Scotland.

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    1. Not heard of him, where was the article? The BritNats are hoping that some people especially new to Scotland, have no idea that Scotland is economically trapped in a union with basket case England, and isn’t allowed to borrow a penny. Looks like the lies and propaganda being deployed by the BritNat state are being ratcheted up. Must be an election afoot.

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    2. ‘Sir Tom Hunter saying Ireland has a £60billion surplus and Scotland has a £30billion deficit.’

      Hadn’t seen this latest intervention in Scotland’s polity by the wealthy entrepreneur, but I do recall a similar theme covered in The Herald last year (on 5 September). Whether down to a deficit of understanding, a deficit in the journalism or a ‘political/economic ‘blindness’ caused by Unionism, the part of the article available to read online for free was IMHO fundamentally flawed!

      This was the headline: ‘Business veterans say Scotland can learn from Ireland’s success’.

      The article opened with this: ‘ONLY by engaging with the business community will Scotland’s economy get the kickstart it needs, according to business stalwarts Sir Tom Hunter and Lord Willie Haughey who have said that the Scottish Government must look to southern Ireland’s success.’

      I draw attention to the use of the word ‘only’ here as it immediately seems to be out of place – or actually WRONG – when we then get this insight ‘Sir Tom and Lord Haughey, speaking on the Go Radio Business Show with Hunter & Haughey, pointed to the recently-published Oxford Economics report – titled Lessons from Ireland for Scotland’s Economy, A Paper for the Hunter Foundation – WHICH REVEALED A KEY FACTOR OF IRELAND’S ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION HAS BEEN LOW CORPORATION TAX.’ (my emphasis)

      One might well ask: (i) how does Scotland and its government go about replicating the ‘key factor’ of low corporation tax whilst within a Union in which that tax is reserved; (ii) which government has been setting CT rates over more than a decade now of an SNP government inn Scotland – obviously Tory governments in Westminster which Scotland’s electorate by majorities rejected time after time; and (iii) which government has taken overall taxation in the UK to a record high level?

      The BBC News website (29 September, 2023) reported ‘Tax levels in the UK are at their highest since records began 70 years ago – and are unlikely to come down, a leading think tank (the Institute for Fiscal Studies) says.’ So, the ONLY thing Scotland’s economy needs is …..?

      The distinction between the agency available to the government of Ireland – and ultimately to its electorate – and that available here in Scotland could not be more stark. I have no difficulty in believing that Herald journalism may be deliberately disingenuous: are these ‘business veterans’ being deliberately disingenuous too?

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      1. Also they call the Rep.of Ireland, ‘southern Ireland’…and old term is it not? I don’t suppose they point out the Rep.of Ireland is a member of the EU and Scotland is unfortunately no longer a member of the EU, having been dragged out against the will of the majority of the people of Scotland, by England.

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    3. May I suggest that you practise being an independent Scot by not using titles that will have no relevance in an independent Scotland?

      Plain old Tom Hunter would suffice. 🙂

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  2. BBC 9am Sunday programme.

    Hunter helped Mone get started tax evading and corruption. Hunter does not want the wealthy paying taxes. Lied about Scottish tax regime. Lower income households paying less tax. 2% of wealthy households paying slightly more. Hunter involved in ‘charity work’. Helping themselves to taxpayers monies. Mone. Illegally.

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  3. Tax levels the highest in the UK? Etc. 2019/20. £817Billion revenues raised in UK.

    20/21. Last Accounts £731Billion revenues raised. Tax take went down. UK Gov spent £1090Billion.

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  4. Tax evasion in IR now stopped by the EU.The tax evading multinationals (US) had to pay the tax. EU stopping (Foreign) multinational tax evading. Westminster supports taxation evasion. HMRC lets them get away with it. Mone etc. Westminster members and associates tax evading. Thatcher set up tax havens. Tory imposed Brexit to support tax evasion. London tax evading capital in the world. The UK the most unequal place in the world.

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    1. G you have to go into ‘reader’ then ‘manage subcriptions’ from there you scroll down to the blog/site then on the right … you can adjust what you are able to receive re, emails/comments/notfications and how often. I have had to update a couple of blogs I was somehow unsubscribed to, just yesterday, one being Wee Ginger Dug. Probs worth updating stuff just in case.
      🙂

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  7. The Daily Record are running a hit piece with comments disabled stating vaccination rates in Scotland collapsing to 90% alongside the predictable negativity.

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