The teenager who defied his anti-vaccine parents and got inoculated at the age of 18, has testified in Congress on the dangers of misinformation spread by anti-vaxxers
The teenager raised in an anti-vaccine household who made headlines after defying his parents to get shots as a teenager is due to testify in Congress today.
Alongside Lindenberger, several experts will also testify at the hearing. These include: Dr. John Wiseman, the Secretary of Health for the Washington State Department of Health; Saad Omer, Professor of Epidemiology & Pediatrics at Emory University and John Boyle, President and CEO of the Immune Deficiency Foundation.
“I grew up in an anti-vax household,” he said in the clip. “My mom did not believe that vaccines were beneficial to the health and safety of society and believes that they cause autism, brain damage and other complications. Although this has largely been debunked by the scientific community, because of that, I did not receive the majority of standard vaccines that an individual would receive, and in the past few months I’ve caught up on all my shots now that I’m 18.
“As the title explains, my parents think vaccines are some kind of government scheme,” he wrote. “It's stupid and I've had countless arguments over the topic. But, because of their beliefs I've never been vaccinated for anything, god knows how I'm still alive.” Lindenberger’s mother, Jill Wheeler, told Good Morning America that her son’s decision sparked a lot of discussion.
In fact, the scale of the problem is such that the World Health Organization recently listed vaccine hesitancy as one of its top 10 threats to global health in 2019.
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