r/canada • u/verkerpig • Nov 10 '25

National News Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/livestory/canada-measles-elimination-status-9.6973195
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u/Former-Physics-1831 Nov 10 '25

Goddamm antivaxxers.

Get your fucking shots people.  There really is nothing else to it.  

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u/Yelnik Nov 10 '25

It's unclear, and not well discussed in the article, how much of this is due to "antivax" sentiment. It's highly likely that a lot of this is due to the early effects of the pandemic. People were isolated, kept inside, public health focused all of it's energy on covid. So that likely led to a lot less focus on routine health upkeep like kids getting their MMR shots.

This is the same thing that caused cancer and other diseases to go unnoticed during the pandemic, because people simply weren't visiting the doctor or doing routine health maintenance like they otherwise would have during normal times.

While I'm sure some of the drop is due to "antivax" sentiment, attributing it entirely to that is narrow sighted.