This is the first cohort of folks that age who were offered the HPV vaccine when they were 12 or 13.

Expect even more dramatic results as that group enters their 30s & 40s.

  • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Teenaged boys are idiots, but parents really should know better. Or the permission slip should be better at explaining what’s happening.

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      3 months ago

      They knew. They knew that it prevented something that a woman could get during sex. So obviously getting it would just encourage girls to have sex, because they knew they were safe!