Immunization rates at record high

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http://www.clickondetroit.com/health/3593073/detail.html

In the spring, at an open house at a suburban Detroit OT/PT/speech

therapy facility (the open house was because Carol Kranowitz was in

town), I talked AT LENGTH to the staff from the DIC (Detroit

Institute for Children), including the DIRECTOR Eileen Donovan

MD,PT, and the nurse on her staff.

They said they are NOT seeing autism in the city like we are out in

the burbs, and the NURSE said SHE thinks its because those inner

city parents tend not to vaccinate their children until they HAVE to

for KINDERGARTEN, thereby bypassing the critical time of the

developing nervous system.

Fast forward to tonight:

I got a call this evening from a pediatric ophthalmologist from

Children's Hospital in Detroit named Roarty MD, (long, long

story, about my quest to learn more about vision therapy and why no

one will back it or cover it, which I will skip), and the

conversation turned to vaccines. I told him what that nurse said to

me back in the spring.

He said that someone at U of M School of Public Health should do an

epidemiological study about what the nurse said, and see if she's

right. Are autism rates truly lower in the city of Detroit? Are

parents waiting until much much later to vaccinate their children?

And if Record numbers of children ARE vaccinated, would we be able

to see that difference in the big cities, where parents might not

have insurance to cover vaccinations, and thus postpone them as long

as possible?

Food for thought.

Has anyone done studies on this?