Measles and mumps would be lower if more people accepted the vaccine.
Now compare to autism diagnosese…
…and see no correlation.
Given that the term autism didn’t exist before 1911 it probably wasn’t being diagnosed a whole lot before then. But I would guess it went up as understanding and awareness of it grew, but there were definitely descriptions of people who met the criteria for it long before then.
Watch RFK wash it all away.
Antivaxxers: Hold my Ivermectin and watch this…
Would be neat to see deaths or hospitalizations pre/post visualized this way too to really drive home the point for the “measles weren’t really that bad” crowd.