Childhood Vaccination: MMR

Childhood Vaccination Author Name Institution Affiliation Summary of the Article The article I am going to analyze was published by Anders Hviid and their team in Annals of Internal Medicine (ACP), on March 5, 2019. According to the researchers, there is a strong link between mumps, measles, autism, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, which is why people are worried about whether their children should be vaccinated or not (Hviid et al. 2019). It has long been believed that the use of the MMR vaccine can increase the risks of autism in children. In order to prove their viewpoints, Anders Hviid and their team got over 650,000 children involved in the study. The years of their birth were from 1999 to December 2010. They made the wise use of the Danish population registries in this study. Survival analysis of the time to autism diagnosis with Cox proportional hazards regression was also used for estimating the level of seriousness of this issue. The results of this study revealed that only 6500 children with measles and mumps were diagnosed for autism, and unvaccinated kids had yielded an adjusted autism hazard rate of 0.93. In the meantime, no risks for autism were found in other children who were being given the MMR vaccination. This study made it clear that the notion that the MMR vaccination increases the risks for autism has nothing to do with reality. The fact is that the MMR vaccine is safe to be used in situations when children have mumps, rubella, and measles. The first dose must be given around nine to fifteen months of age, followed by a second dose at the age of six years. After these two doses, over 96 percent of people have been protected against measles, mumps, and rubella, and only two of them have complained about autism. The MMR vaccination is also good for those who have weak immunity, and for those who have HIV/AIDS. Within a few hours, the disease can be cured if vaccination is done quickly and proficiently. Ethical Issues Discussed in the Article The first ethical issue discussed in this study is that information of the participants was collected from multiple sources, such as from psychiatrist wards of reputed hospitals and private children clinics. It is a matter of ethical consideration as the privacy of those children should be the top priority. Though their data or personal details were not shared with anyone, it became difficult for Anders Hviid and their team to collect, organize, structure and store data precisely and accurately. It took them many months to complete this project, and during this time, their core responsibility was to ensure the privacy of participants regardless of their age, class, gender or backgroun...