“We compiled and presented the number of diagnoses for infections targeted by vaccines (considering the CDC pediatric schedule) in the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups in the full cohort. We evaluated each vaccine targeted infection individually and analyzed the association between vaccination status and overall occurrence of vaccine-targeted infections using vaccine-targeted diagnoses.”
Discussion
It's a chicken and egg problem. e.g. For measles the herd vaccination protects unvaccinated minority from even getting it. They should compare TBE or malaria occurrences which are not part of the pediatric schedule. But ofc those diseases are more rare, so that's why they're not part of the schedule.
FYI in YU we used to get vaccinated against https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Yugoslav_smallpox_outbreak. The disease was successfully eradicated so this was removed from the pediatric schedule in 20 years or so.