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As measles takes toll on kids, anti-vaxxers have change of heart (www.spokesman.com)
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Katie Jennings was scrolling on her phone last April when a headline stopped her cold. A second unvaccinated child had died of measles in her home state of Texas.

It was a tipping point for the 40-year-old stay-at-home mom who had grown up in a staunchly anti-vaccine, fundamentalist Christian community. “What are we doing? Why are we doing this?” she remembers thinking. “I wanted to protect my kids.”

She took all six of them to get the measles, mumps and rubella shot. Then she posted an emotional TikTok aimed at the anti-vax crowd she used to be a part of: “You can change your mind,” she said in the video that’s been watched more than 422,000 times.

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[–] 4 points 6 months ago

I was just saying that getting infected by one means you can eventually develop the other . It really sucks that your kid got an entirely preventable disease because of shitty people. I hope you never have to deal with shingles. I got it as a young teen and it was truly awful.

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