Doctor to parents who don't vaccinate their kids: 'What is wrong with you?'

It seemed like a sequence of events from another era, rather than the year 2024: A five-week-old baby from the Jerusalem area died of whooping cough about a week ago because his mother did not get vaccinated during pregnancy. Two days later, a seven-year-old girl from Netanya, who had not been vaccinated against tetanus, was admitted to the intensive care unit at Laniado Hospital after contracting the bacteria from a fall and injury. It was later revealed that her parents had refused to vaccinate her.

2 View gallery Important to vaccinate early ( Photo: shutterstock ) Dr. Maurit Beeri, a pediatrician and director general of ALYN Rehabilitation Hospital for Children and Youth, says that these events should never have occurred. "Unfortunately, these incidents can no longer be considered 'bizarre.

' In recent years, we have seen a trend where people re-evaluate expert recommendations and make decisions without informed knowledge. When it comes to preventing infectious diseases, we see a decline in vaccination rates, especially within certain population groups. We must remember that these things spread and endanger us all," according to Beeri.

"If we used to call it 'Dr. Google,' today it's 'Professor TikTok.' Everyone has their own agenda and platform with wide reach.

Since COVID-19, instead of expressing gratitude for vaccines that saved us from lockdowns, people have become more emboldened to refuse vaccinations for other diseases as well." "People don't differentiate between n.