On BBC UK this morning, a worrying report on falling immunisation levels among children to well below the 95% immunity level.
Of particular concern the effect of low immunisation with the MMR vaccine to cover the deadly measles. Not reported above and as yet unavailable online, the MMR figure from September 2023, was 92.5%
Also published today, the Scottish data:
92.6% of children had the first dose of MMR vaccine by 24 months of age. This rose to 95.6% for children who had reached age 5.
As of 19 June, there have been 14 laboratory-confirmed measles cases in Scotland in 2024.
There was one laboratory-confirmed measles case in Scotland in 2023.
All things being equal, England might have expected to have around 150 cases but has had 1109, seven times as many.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
The ‘Scottish’ media will present these data which apply to England as applying, by implication, to Scotland, because they are ‘bad’, and the unionist narrative is the anything Scottish is by definition ‘bad’. So, no contextual information will be included, so that some people have their unionist bias confirmed.
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‘The ‘Scottish’ media will present these data which apply to England as applying, by implication, to Scotland’. How prescient!
There is a classic example of this kind of thing – of a deliberate, blatant attempt at conflation – albeit on the BBC News website’s Health section today – and on the very same vaccination rates into the bargain!
The article has this headline: Low child vaccine uptake sees tipping-point warning (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ggge56x1qo)
It starts with this: ‘The UK is at a “tipping point”, with low uptake of routine vaccinations putting children at risk of catching severe diseases, health officials say.’
‘Stalling vaccination rates against some diseases, such as whooping cough and measles, means population immunity is no longer high enough to stop outbreaks.’
And later states: ‘.. targets are still being missed.‘ Up to this point this is being reported as a ‘UK issue’.
The journalist then explains that: ‘The World Health Organization (WHO) target is for 95% of under-fives to be vaccinated.’ And then with regards to this same WHO target, the BBC eventually gets round to reporting: ‘… for the six-in-one jab – against whooping cough, polio and tetanus – and measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine this was exceeded in Scotland and Wales.’ So low take-up rates is NOT a UK issue after all?
Can’t acknowledge that! So the the BBC journalist persists, reverts to telling us its a UK-wide issue: ‘But for the UK as a whole:
– MMR1 coverage, given at the age of one, had dropped 0.5% to 92.5%
– MMR2, between three and five, had risen by 0.2% but only to 85.2%.’
If Wales and Scotland have exceeded the WHO targets – and given the size of the relevant population of NI – would it not have been more accurate to write: ‘But for England ..’ or ‘But for England and NI …’? Can the BBC journalist simply not bring him/herself to acknowledge that at this time this is a ‘tipping point’ for England?
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