Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities

Vaccination rates across the U.S. don't neatly correlate with religiosity or wealth; Wired reports that one conspicuous pocket of low vaccination rates, according to California's state database of daycare records, is a place where you might not expect it: Silicon Valley — specifically, the daycare centers at some large tech companies. A WIRED investigation shows that some children attending day care facilities affiliated with prominent Silicon Valley companies have not been completely vaccinated against preventable infectious diseases. At least, that’s according to a giant database from the California Department of Public Health, which tracks the vaccination rates at day care facilities and preschools in the state. We selected more than 20 large technology and health companies in the Bay Area and researched their day care offerings. Of 12 day care facilities affiliated with tech companies, six—that’s half—have below-average vaccination rates, according to the state’s data. ... And those six have a level of measles vaccination that does not provide the “herd immunity” critical to the spread of the disease. Now, this data has limitations—most critically, it might not be current. But it also suggests an incursion of anti-science, anti-vaccine thinking in one of the smartest regions on Earth.

Comments

Re:Ha!

[grimmjeeper]

I prefer to keep the gluttons away from my lunches as well. It's hard to deal with gluten intolerance when they're eating all of my food.

Re:You don't say!

[quenda]

These are the same companies where as much as 40% of sick leave is taken on a Monday or Friday.

The reason is obvious

[pem]

The only women that will marry the loser geeks are batshit insane, and the geeks have made the perfectly valid mental calculation that they are more apt to pass on their genes if they have kids and don't vaccinate them than if they fail to have kids altogether.

Re:More liberal than libertarian

[monkeyzoo]

You'd think Berkeley would have the best recycling in the world...

They do, for needles. ;-)

But regarding the OP, these "smartest regions on earth" are full of people who think they're smarter than everyone else and therefore that they know better. As John Stewart put, "This is Marin County! They're not rednecks. They're not ignorant. They practice a mindful stupidity."

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