The AMR is hard to find on that chart at all. It's a small portion of the first quarter of 2020, and then it basically disappears. I guess that's good for us. Could be creeping back in the last two months.....hard to tell.
Re: another thread entirely: stacked bar charts aren't in the top 5 of worthless, misleading visualization tools, but they're in the top 10.
I mean, I feel like you've eliminated pretty much every style of visualization tool. What IS acceptable to you?
And yes, the first point of the chart above is to illustrate that although the current outbreak in Texas/USA is the largest in I think 25 years now, it's not something new in the world, or unique to the USA.
Now that doesn't mean we should stop pushing for measles vaccinations in the USA, but it does tell me at least, that with so many very large external threat vectors, it was and is inevitable that the measles would make it back into the US at some point, into one of the largely undervaxed or unvaxed populations, which are often the insular religious sects like Mennonites.
But we should absolutely be careful that we don't allow anti-vax ideology to creep into previously willing populations.
And finally, there have been more child deaths this season from flu and RSV, than from the measles, so we should be precise about where we're focusing our vaccination messaging and resources.
