Vaccinating Children By Stephen Bernstein Analysis

The author, Lenny Bernstein, writes about how a mother of seven children was against vaccinating her children until all of them got the whooping cough disease. Bernstein currently writes for the Washington Post and typically covers medicine and health. He attended Trinity College where he studied American Studies, and he also graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan where he studied American Culture. In this post Bernstein seems like he is against the anti-vaccination community. In the post he writes “Vaccination rates in Canada, like those in United States, have waned in some communities, mostly as a result of increased skepticism about the dangers of immunization that have spread on the Internet despite overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines are safe and effective.” He talks about how the United States and Canada have been affected by both the measles and whooping cough because of people that are against vaccinating their children. …show more content…
Before her children got this disease she was scared about getting her kids vaccinated because she did not know if the vaccination was going to be causing harm or if “the medical community was just paid off puppets of a Big Pharma-Government-Media conspiracy” as she said on the post. She decided to just hope that her children did not get any king of harmful disease. Unfortunately her hoping nothing happens did not work against the whooping cough disease. She had to watch all seven of her children endure the pain of the whooping cough disease while they were under isolation at their own