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2025-02-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza polio vaccination drive reached 600,000 children in five days, WHO says

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-28 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 The numbers don't seem right. That's near half the population of Gaza.

how many times has WHO vaccinated Gaza children so far? Seems that WHO has done this four or five times already.

How many people did it take to vaccine all 600,000 children in only five days?

Posted by n 2025-02-28 01:00|| 2025-02-28 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 According to the CIA World Factbook website, almost 40% of the population in Gaza is age 0-14 years — as reported by the Hamas government, presumably before 10/7/2023, as they’ve been a bit busy since — with about another 10% aged 15-19. The median age is 19.5, and the total fertility rate is claimed to be 3.26 children born/woman.

Quite possibly Hamas made up all the numbers, n, but I know of no better source since Israel pulled out and stopped tracking their statistics.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-28 01:28|| 2025-02-28 01:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Guess What's Not a Question: WHO Is On the Verge of Collapse

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-28 01:36|| 2025-02-28 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4
Basic math, refugee & population data voids the 600K statement.

But for S%^T & Grins
Using 600k / 5 days = 10,000 per day.
Using the hours of 8am to 6pm = 10 hours Daylight.
That's a 1,000 shots per hour (w/o a lunch or breaks).

At about 5 mins a shot, due to Paperwork, Admin and inoculation issues. That works out to 12 per hour per doctor.

Requiring a setup for 83 doctors, with staff?
All working w/o a lunch or pee breaks.

PLUS
Remember, there is religious opposition by Muslim fundamentalists, against polio vax'ing. Which Gaza kids and their parents generally seem to fall into, and were not Vax'd before?
Why now?

Also, according to the CDC data, unlike it was in the early 60's, it is now 4 shots administered over a period of years. So did the vax'ings even happen, and if so will the needed follow-up shots happen?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-02-28 06:00|| 2025-02-28 06:00|| Front Page Top

#5 4 shots? I remember getting the one Salk shot and a few years later taking the Sabin oral. They do things differently now I guess.

And somebody is making money.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-02-28 06:44|| 2025-02-28 06:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Guess What's Not a Question: WHO Is On the Verge of Collapse

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-28 10:30|| 2025-02-28 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds like budget justifying to me.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-28 12:02|| 2025-02-28 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 They do things differently now I guess.

The first two rounds they did with an “improved” version of the vaccine, Mullah Richard. They discovered it was ineffective — I seem to recall virii discovered in the sewage, but it may have been a child falling ill — so they panicked and decided to do the whole thing over with a vaccine that actually works.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-28 13:22|| 2025-02-28 13:22|| Front Page Top

#9 religious opposition by Muslim fundamentalists, against polio vax'ing. Which Gaza kids and their parents generally seem to fall into

That’s a Pakistan problem. In Gaza they're there for all the free bennies. Also, Hamas is Muslim Brotherhood, so they aren’t anti-science, they just want their kind of pious running the expanding caliphate and most women at home rearing kids. The Turkish Gulenists are in the same gradualist mold, just perhaps one step less totalitarian in that they left politics to Recep Tayip Erdogan and his professional politicians — which is why they got the Menshevik treatment.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-28 13:33|| 2025-02-28 13:33|| Front Page Top

#10 600,000 children? Someone is doing a very bad job on the 'genocide' thing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-28 15:37|| 2025-02-28 15:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Using 600k / 5 days = 10,000 per day.

At the risk of being the pedantic nerd, 600,000 kids / 5 days is 120,000 per day. But the point still stands. Even more so, in fact.

If this was my circus, I'd inoculate the kids using an oral/nasal vaccine and an agricultural spray drone. If it's good enough for cabbage loopers, it's good enough for polio.

As for the 'genocide' thing, Netanyahu should get the Nobel Prize for Lamest Genocide Ever.

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-28 20:13|| 2025-02-28 20:13|| Front Page Top

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