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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sun’s Editorial Boa
Sun General Manage
Lance Moler, Sun Edi
Mark Codner and
hurt the team YOUR OPINION community members
Weber, Lydia Lee and
here parents Nash.
m every team, Misinformation oughly tested medical products dren and our community’s chil-
It’s a world available in the U.S. dren.
age other kids,
st or slow, on
gives parents If you’re a parent of a child
who is immunocompromised
The Oklahoma Alliance for
Healthy Families is a resource
a competitor’s. or too young to vaccinate, you for taking action, connecting
no one yells at a unnecessary still worry. Without vaccines, public health experts and par-
ues with the children rely on the immunity ents to improve the health of
erated for being reasons to worry of those around them to protect our schools, communities, and
them from infectious diseases. families.
e every student To the Editor, The choice to vaccinate doesn’t Take the first steps in eradi-
be on the team, just impact us. It impacts the cating parents’ worries, whether

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take pride in s parents, we worry about
n with their our children. We worry
y finish high about their grades, if they
edal, maybe wear helmets, if they have nice
friends, and everything under
e every youth the sun. The list seems endless,
e. Cross country and most we can’t control.
There is something we can
use when the control: Vaccines. We can pro-
yone is smiling. tect them from preventable dis-
eases. Vaccines are safe, effec-
19 tive and one of the most thor-
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lives of everyone we come into
contact with.
Oklahoma is one of 18 states
that allows non-medical vac-
cine exemptions.
Misinformation on vaccines is
putting our communities at
risk, resulting in growing
exemptions. We can change
that.
We need to step up and take
action, to protect our own chil-
engaging with the Alliance on
social media, sharing their sci-
ence-backed information, join-
ing events at the state capitol or
contacting your state legislator.
There are so many things we
can’t protect our children from.
Don’t let infectious disease
become one more.
Lucia Frohling
Edmond

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