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This actually happened in Japan.

I think this is really interesting because you look at how these two countries behave

towards vaccines and vaccine safety, and Japan has done really some actions which are not

followed by a lot of the other Western advanced health economies, but when they noticed this

rash of deaths in the 70s, what they did is they raised the age of vaccination to two

years old.

Guess what happened?

When they did that, infant deaths disappeared.

So you have a country who noticed the signal, did something about it, and actually solved

the problem.

Neonatal mortality decreased.