More and more Polish parents refuse to make their children compulsory vaccinations. In 2020, there were over 50 such waivers. That’s 14 times more than a decade ago. There are no statistics for 2021 yet, but PZH experts say that it will not be better. What might this be? Where are the most deviations?

  1. In Poland, the number of exemptions from compulsory vaccinations has been growing for years. This means that more and more children and adolescents are unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated
  2. According to the data of the National Institute of Public Health PZH – PIB, the number of cases of avoiding compulsory vaccinations in 2020 was 6,9 per thousand people up to 19 years of age. This is almost 10 times more than eight years earlier
  3. Epidemiologists remind us that long-standing vaccinations cannot be neglected. Otherwise, we are threatened by the so-called compensatory epidemics
  4. More information can be found on the Onet homepage

We avoid compulsory vaccinations

The number of exemptions from compulsory vaccinations has been growing in Poland for years. However, while in 2010 there were 3 thous. 437 repealing, in 2020 there were already 50. 575. That’s over 14 times more.

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If we look at the rest of the last decade, the situation is as follows: 2011 – 4. 689 vaccination refusals, 2012 – 5 340, 2013 – 7 thousand. 248, 2014 – 12 thousand. 681, 2015 – 16 thousand 689, 2016 – 23 thousand 147, 2017 – 30 thousand 090, 2018 40 Th. 342, 2019 – 48 thousand 609. The scale of the increases is perfectly presented in the chart published by the National Institute of Public Health PZH – PIB, which collects this type of information.

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Where are children and adolescents vaccinated most often?

According to the data presented by the National Institute of Hygiene, in 2020 the most refusals per 19 people aged up to 9 were recorded in the Śląskie, Wielkopolskie and Pomorskie voivodships (over nine per the aforementioned thousand people). When it comes to specific numbers, the greatest number of waivers was in the province. Silesia (254 thousand XNUMX). Details are presented on the map below.

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For comparison, we also present the situation from 2019.

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According to the National Institute of Public Health PZH – PIB, the number of cases of avoiding compulsory vaccinations per thousand people aged 0-19 in 2020 was 6,9. For comparison, in 2012 it was 0,7; in 2016 already 3,2; in 2018 – 5,5 and in 2019 – 6,6. As Gazeta Prawna recently wrote, there are no statistics for 2021 yet, experts say, however, that it will not get any better.

“We are approaching the threshold of population immunity”

What may the growing number of unvaccinated children in Poland lead to? The National Institute of Hygiene has no doubts: “Such a situation threatens us with compensatory epidemics (or periodic – editor’s note) of diseases against which we have free, safe and effective vaccines available, after all” – he informs. As the National Institute of Hygiene explains, when a larger group of unvaccinated children gather in a given area, contact with, for example, the measles virus or the pertussis bacterium, in the long run, may result in a local epidemic.

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In November, prof. Iwona Paradowska-Stankiewicz, national consultant in the field of epidemiology. The scientist admitted that the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinating the largest possible population against SARS-CoV-2 are currently the biggest challenge. However, it must not be forgotten that there are other infectious diseases against which protective preparations are available, and long-standing vaccinations cannot be neglected.

As an example, prof. Paradowska-Stankiewicz reported poliomyelitis, i.e. Heine-Medin’s disease. The data of the National Institute of Public Health of the National Institute of Hygiene shows that in 2016, vaccination against this disease in our country reached almost 92%, in 2020 it fell to slightly over 85%. – We are approaching the threshold of population immunity and it is more and more endangered – warned the professor.

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