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OK.. don't like AI? (although I'm sure you would if it provided the false answer you wanted). You can try this instead: Where is measles coming from? Data shows that it’s not illegal immigration Katelyn Jetelina Apr 11, 2024 Most cases are U.S. residents traveling abroad "Health departments investigate every measles outbreak to prevent it from spreading. They ask people all sorts of questions to understand where the virus has spread and who needs to quarantine. This is called contact tracing. If we aggregate contact tracing data, as scientific teams have done in previous years, this is what the data tells us: In 2019, our last bad measles year, 77%* of index cases (i.e., patient zero for an outbreak) were U.S. residents who had recently traveled and returned home infected. The top source countries were the Philippines, Ukraine, Israel, Thailand, and Vietnam. The massive 2019 New York outbreak among the unvaccinated Orthodox Jewish community started when a child picked up measles on a trip to Israel and returned home. In 2015, the previously bad measles year, CDC reported 159 measles cases—155 (97%) were U.S. residents, and 4 were foreign travelers. The source regions were the East Mediterranean, Asia, and Europe. (more) Your Local Epidemiologist blog https://web.archive.org/web/20250405074154/https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/where-is-measles-coming-from

It must be interesting living in a fact-free bubble. While some immigrants have been involved in measles outbreaks in the U.S., they're not the primary source of outbreaks and infections. American citizens and residents are: --AI assisted

https://twitter.com/BenMazer/status/1972847575373135957

An explanation on how the sources cited in Kennedy's video don't actually support the claims he's making: Kennedy’s Claim: CDC Study Shows Vaccines Deserve “Little Credit” "Kennedy cites a 2000 CDC/Johns Hopkins study by Guyer and colleagues claiming it shows vaccines deserve “little credit.” But he strips its conclusion out of context. The study states: “Thus vaccination does not account for the impressive declines in mortality seen in the first half of the century.” The first half. Before 1950. When there were few vaccines. [emphasis added] Indeed, Guyer’s review of the entire century’s data confirms this pattern. Between 1900 and 1998, infectious diseases’ share of childhood deaths dropped from 61.6% to just 2%. The study explicitly credits post-1950 medical advances—including vaccines—for “nearly eliminating” deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases like diphtheria, pertussis, and polio. The authors note that “the decline in infant mortality received new momentum in the 1960s,” specifically due to medical interventions, not sanitation improvements. They confirm that “The reductions in vaccine-preventable diseases are impressive.... Deaths from [diphtheria, pertussis, and measles] have been virtually eliminated, as have deaths from Haemophilus influenzae, tetanus, and poliomyelitis.” Kennedy uses a study that actually supports vaccination to argue against it." Kennedy’s Claim: The McKinlay Study Proves His Point "Kennedy’s video relies heavily on the McKinlay & McKinlay 1977 study, repeatedly citing their finding that medical measures contributed at most 3.5% to mortality decline before 1950. What he doesn’t mention? The McKinlays themselves explicitly reject anti-vaccine interpretations of their work. [emphasis added] In 2020, when reflecting on how anti-vaccine advocates misuse their research, the McKinlays stated: “We consider this an egregious misinterpretation of our research. Effective vaccines clearly have an important role in the ongoing containment of a disease after its prevalence has been reduced.” They specifically cite the resurgence of measles following reduced vaccination as proof that vaccines remain essential." Unbiased Science blog https://theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/why-i-shower-after-flying-and-why

Public health experts are trashing a new video anti-vaxer and COVID misinformer HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted to social media recently, falsely downplaying the importance of vaccines in reducing the burdens of death and disease from vaccine-preventable childhood diseases, and as usual, misrepresenting the sources he used to make his misleading vaccine claims while focusing primarily on the roles of sanitation, nutrition, etc. Kennedy Video on Death Rates Before Vaccines Ignores Other Harms of Infection — American public health aims higher than just preventing deaths, experts say October 2, 2025 "Earlier this week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a 7-minute video on X in which he promised to "shred" a chart displayed during his Senate hearing last month. Kennedy proclaimed that deaths due to some of the most common infectious diseases fell dramatically during the 20th century long before vaccines were widely used. But experts said Kennedy is comparing apples to oranges. The chart focused on infections, not deaths -- and infections have been substantially reduced by vaccination. [emphasis added] Along with that decline in infection comes a reduction in hospitalization, severe illness, and further reductions in mortality, they said. "Just because somebody doesn't die, that doesn't take away the importance of the fact that they may develop severe illness or be hospitalized," Robert Bednarczyk, PhD, an epidemiologist at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, told MedPage Today. ... Measles cases declined dramatically after the vaccination program, and along with that came further reductions in measles deaths, to the point where the disease was declared "eliminated" from the country in 2000." (more) https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/117764 AND Secretary Kennedy’s false vaccine narrative threatens lives and public health September 30, 2025 "A new Department of Health and Human Services video alarmingly pits vaccines against other public health priorities, such as nutrition, exercise and sanitation. Secretary Kennedy presents a false dichotomy by misrepresenting what the data tell us about the substantial effectiveness of vaccines. His message contradicts all scientific evidence and puts lives at risk. Data clearly indicate that major reductions in deaths due to infectious diseases in the past century are due to medical advances like antibiotics and vaccines, combined with initiatives like improved sanitation and hygiene. While some reductions in death occurred before vaccines, significant reductions in diseases themselves — which often caused hospitalization and long-term health damage such as disabilities, blindness and hearing loss — did not occur until after the use of vaccines. [emphasis added] For several infectious diseases, including pneumococcal infections, Haemophilus influenzae type b, hepatitis B, HPV and others, significant reductions in deaths occurred only after vaccines were introduced and implemented. Vaccines continue to be directly responsible for preventing millions of disease cases and deaths. Secretary Kennedy’s agenda to sow doubt and confusion about vaccines and restrict vaccine access is already severely harming Americans. This year, we’re seeing a record number of measles cases — the highest since measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, when the disease was no longer spreading continuously here — and countless Americans are still struggling to access a COVID vaccine. ... Americans deserve access to evidence-based information, safe and effective vaccines, healthy food and all other public health measures recommended by health care professionals to help us lead long, healthy lives. Tina Tan, MD President, Infectious Diseases Society of America https://www.idsociety.org/news--publications-new/articles/2025/secretary-kennedys-false-vaccine-narrative-threatens-lives-and-public-health/

Your 1995 citation is out-of-date and inaccurate for AZT's much safer use today. The treatment world has changed from your cite from 30 years ago! --AI assisted

And more than that -- now clear evidence that Kennedy's supposed Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) platform is largely a political farce, at least when it comes to both pesticides and tobacco. Trump and Kennedy, including the U.S. FDA that he now oversees, are simply beholden to big money Republican dominated industry groups and their campaign dollars: PESTICIDES: MAHA Commission Succumbs to Pesticide Industry Pressure Draft Report Walks Back Administration’s Promises of Bold Action on Pesticides August 15, 2025 "WASHINGTON— A much-anticipated draft action plan from the Make America Healthy Again Commission eliminated any plans for action on pesticides. This report is the follow up to the commission’s May MAHA report, which included pesticides and specifically named both glyphosate and atrazine. The threat of any new restrictions being placed on the use of dangerous pesticides spurred a massive and successful lobbying effort by the chemical industry and commodity growers’ groups, alongside their friends in Congress and the EPA, to force the commission to back off. Instead of action, the recommendations direct the EPA and Big Ag to work together to convince the public to have confidence in pesticide review processes, which are broadly criticized for scientific inadequacy and excessive industry influence. It also encourages research into new pesticide application technologies." AND ON TOBACCO: FDA Authorizes Highly Addictive Juul, Responsible for Youth Vaping Epidemic July 17, 2025 Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it authorized the marketing application for Juul menthol and tobacco flavored e-cigarettes. The American Lung Association’s President and CEO Harold Wimmer issued the following statement in response to the FDA’s announcement: “The American Lung Association is deeply troubled that FDA will permit Juul to remain on the market in the U.S. and is especially concerned to learn that Juul’s menthol flavor will continue being sold. These products have never met the Tobacco Control Act’s public health standard, and today’s decision risks further harm to youth. “Juul hooked a generation of kids on tobacco through flavored products, youth-targeted marketing and high-levels of nicotine, and remains popular today. Juul has already agreed to pay more than $1 billion in settlements for its role in addicting a generation of kids. Ending the sale of Juul and all flavored e-cigarette products, including menthol, is the clear path to ending youth vaping for good. “The Lung Association stands firmly with the science: no flavored tobacco products are appropriate for the protection of public health, and all should be removed. We urge FDA to reconsider its decision, and for state and local governments to act to end the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including all menthol cigarettes and e-cigarettes.” https://www.lung.org/media/press-releases/fy26-juul-fda-statement AND Backsliding against big tobacco "You might remember Juul as THE vape product a few years ago—until it was banned by the FDA in 2022 for “unlawful and deceptive marketing practices.” Well, they’re back. Here’s a refresher on why Juul was banned. The legal age to buy and use a nicotine vape is 21 years old in the United States. This is to prevent nicotine addiction early in life, and because nicotine can be harmful to still-developing adolescent brains. Yet in July, the FDA [under Kennedy] authorized Juul’s return to the market with Virginia tobacco and menthol flavor pods with 3% and 5% nicotine. This move was immediately opposed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Heart Association, and American Lung Association— it’s seen as a reversal of years of progress in protecting young people from nicotine vapes. Many see Juul’s return as a sign of the new administration’s tobacco-friendlier ways (the tobacco company Reynolds American was the largest corporate donor to the Trump campaign fund) and it happened at the same time as the CDC’s Office of Tobacco and Health [also under Kennedy] was dismantled." [emphasis added, and explainer than both the CDC and FDA are now controlled by Kennedy] https://yourlocalepidemiologistca.substack.com/p/ca-virus-weather-report-h5n1-cat Kennedy Making America Healthy Again? BUNK!

I think RFK Jr.'s record of public (mis)statements and fact-bereft positions is pretty well established: Repeated Falsehoods at Autism Press Conference COVID Vaccines Are Harder to Get, Despite Claims from HHS, RFK Jr. RFK Jr. Cherry-Picks and Misuses Data on Aluminum-Containing Vaccines RFK Jr. Defends Ouster of CDC Director by Distorting List of Public Health Achievements https://www.factcheck.org/person/robert-f-kennedy-jr/ and that's just for the past month or so.... There aren't enough digital pages on this forum to start listing ALL of the many falsehoods and distortions Kennedy has uttered over the years.

And more rave reviews! ‘RFK Jr is a disaster’: Staff describe chaos in ‘anti-science’ regime Officials in US health agencies fear ‘people will get sick’ as programmes are slashed and scientists are fired under the constant surveillance of Doge June 20 2025 https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/cdc-rfk-robert-f-kennedy-q5tv0300z

Ohh, the news media still do cover vaccine disasters, just not the imaginary false ones you keep trying to hoodwink people with... Here's the real one: ‘RFK Jr is a disaster’: Staff describe chaos in ‘anti-science’ regime Officials in US health agencies fear ‘people will get sick’ as programmes are slashed and scientists are fired under the constant surveillance of Doge June 20 2025 ... "Ever since Robert F Kennedy Jr was appointed health secretary in February, more than 10,000 staff — many with decades of experience — have been fired. Now, the tens of thousands of health workers and scientists still employed by the US government feel like their lives have been turned upside down, according to ten current and former staff at the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), speaking to The Times. Under instruction from Kennedy and Doge, health priorities have been reset, longstanding scientific norms disrupted and thousands of research programmes cancelled because of their perceived “wokeness”, officials said. ... “RFK Jr is a disaster,” said one CDC grant specialist who joined the agency within the past five years. “He is completely dismantling things to the point where the damage is going to become irreparable.” https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/cdc-rfk-robert-f-kennedy-q5tv0300z

ICRMA hasn't updated their statement, or needed to, because the underlying facts -- as opposed to anonymous anti-vaxer nonsense -- haven't changed: Study finds no safety issue with most recent mRNA COVID vaccines July 30, 2025 "At a time when federal officials are calling into question the safety and necessity of COVID-19 vaccines, the mRNA COVID vaccine version used this past season showed no elevated risk of any of the 29 serious adverse events that researchers in Denmark assessed. The nationwide cohort study, published this week in JAMA Network Open, included 1,585,883 people (54% female), of whom 1,012,400 (64%) received the updated mRNA COVID vaccines containing the JN.1 lineage. ... No increased risk of 29 adverse events ... They found no statistically significant increases in the rate of hospital contacts for any of 29 adverse events during the 28-day period after patients received an mRNA vaccine. (more) https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-finds-no-safety-issues-most-recent-mrna-covid-vaccines

‘Died suddenly’ posts twist tragedies to push vaccine lies February 4, 2023 ... "those facts didn’t matter online, where Anastasia was swiftly added to a growing list of hundreds of children, teens, athletes and celebrities whose unexpected deaths and injuries have been incorrectly blamed on COVID-19 shots. Using the hashtag #diedsuddenly, online conspiracy theorists have flooded social media with news reports, obituaries and GoFundMe pages in recent months, leaving grieving families to wrestle with the lies. [emphasis added] There’s the 37-year-old Brazilian television host who collapsed live on air because of a congenital heart problem. The 18-year-old unvaccinated bull rider who died from a rare disease. The 32-year-old actress who died from bacterial infection complications. ... Rigorous study and real-world evidence from hundreds of millions of administered shots prove that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. Deaths caused by vaccination are extremely rare and the risks associated with not getting vaccinated are far higher than the risks of vaccination. But that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theorists from lobbing a variety of untrue accusations at the vaccines. [emphasis added] ... An AP review of more than 100 tweets from the account in December and January found that claims about the cases being vaccine related were largely unsubstantiated and, in some cases, contradicted by public information. Some of the people featured died of genetic disorders, drug overdoses, flu complications or suicide. One died in a surfing accident. Associated Press https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-died-suddenly-misinformation-a8e3a80a015ba9bf78b6bd4f3c271f58

ICMRA statement on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines This International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA)* statement provides the general public with important information regarding the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, which have now been in use for more than two years. It also addresses some of the most common types of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccine safety. COVID-19 vaccines significantly reduce the risk of severe disease, hospitalisation and death from infection with SARS-CoV-2. Evidence from the more than 13 billions of vaccine doses given worldwide shows that COVID-19 vaccines have a very good safety profile in all age groups. The benefits of the approved vaccines far outweigh the possible risks. As for all medicines, reports of medical events after COVID-19 vaccination (suspected side effects) are collected and continuously evaluated by the authorities. These evaluations show that in most cases the medical events were not caused by the vaccine. [emphasis added] False and misleading information about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines on social media often exaggerates the frequency and severity of side effects. Misinformation also wrongly attributes unrelated medical events to the vaccines. Vaccine misinformation leading individuals to decline vaccination has very likely led to many more deaths than adverse effects of the vaccines. International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities https://icmra.info/drupal/strategicinitiatives/vaccines/safety_statement Members (partial list): Australia: Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Canada: Health Products and Food Branch Health Canada (HPFB-HC) China: National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) European Union: European Commission Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) European Union: European Medicines Agency (EMA) France: National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) Germany: Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI) Japan: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) Japan: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) Korea: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) New Zealand: New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (Medsafe) Singapore: Health Sciences Authority, Singapore (HSA) UK: Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) US: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

More rubbish from an anoymous anti-vaxer internet blogger: Per the New York Times: "This subject is uncomfortable because it feeds into false stories about the Covid vaccines that many Americans have come to believe — namely, that the vaccines are ineffective or have side effects that exceed their benefits. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, has promoted these stories, as have some Republican politicians and conservative media figures. “The scale of misinformation,” Dr. Joshua Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins University told Apoorva, “is staggering.” So let me be clear: The benefits of the Covid vaccines have far outweighed the downsides, according to a voluminous amount of data and scientific studies from around the world. In the U.S. alone, the vaccines have saved at least several hundred thousand lives and perhaps more than one million, studies estimate. Rates of death, hospitalization and serious illness have all been much higher among the unvaccinated than the vaccinated. [emphasis added] Not only are the vaccines’ benefits enormous, but the true toll of the side effects may be lower than the perceived toll: Experts told Apoorva that some people who believe Covid vaccines have harmed them are probably wrong about the cause of their problems." New York Times https://archive.ph/HSUsy

You mean, he's planning to give all the Hamas folks jobs in the Trump Administration???

For starters, this thread is about the RSV vaccine, not the COVID vaccine. But as for your claims above, more documented false (and, as usual, unsourced) anti-vaxer propaganda claims: Myths vs. Facts: Making Sense of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation August 13, 2021 ... MYTH: The COVID vaccines were not rigorously tested, which is why they have only emergency authorization approval and not full Food and Drug Administration approval. (Update: Pfizer’s vaccine received full FDA approval on August 19) FACT: “Vaccine developers didn’t skip any testing steps, but conducted some of the steps on an overlapping schedule to gather data faster.”—Johns Hopkins Medicine Assoumou: This is the most common question I get asked. I think there is a perception that things moved very fast, but we want to underscore that the technology being used now was being studied for a decade.... .Hamer: The development was more rapid than many other vaccines. But it used the same process of phase one and phase two trials following appropriate safety measures. Stage three trials were large-scale trials done rigorously with very clear outcome definitions. The safety measures and approaches taken are standard for clinical trials. They just did it more rapidly than usual." Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/myths-vs-facts-covid-19-vaccine/

Another misleading nonsense report put forward by anti-vaxers, as explained below by Reuters: The COVID vaccines, to be approved, needed to show that they helped prevent COVID illness in recipients, NOT that they prevented transmission of COVID... Though as it turned out, they did both, especially early in the pandemic. Fact Check: Preventing transmission never required for COVID vaccines’ initial approval; Pfizer vax did reduce transmission of early variants February 12, 2024 "Social media users are circulating video clips of testimony by a Pfizer executive, who is said to “admit” that the company and its partner BioNTech did not test whether their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine reduced virus transmission prior to rolling it out – which is something the companies were not required to do for initial regulatory approval, nor did they claim to have done. [emphasis added] ... To get emergency approval, companies needed to show that the vaccines were safe and prevented vaccinated people from getting ill. They did not have to show that the vaccine would also prevent people from spreading the virus to others. Once the vaccines were on the market, independent researchers in multiple countries studied people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and did show that vaccination reduced transmission of variants circulating at the time." https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/preventing-transmission-never-required-covid-vaccines-initial-approval-pfizer-2024-02-12/

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Ya, her qualifications really don't fit in with your typical misinformation spouting, anonymous anti-vax blogger MO. "Nikan Zargarzadeh, MD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the division of fetal medicine and surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital." And is an author or co-author of nearly 30 journal published articles over the past five years. https://research.childrenshospital.org/researchers/nikan-zargarzadeh including: COVID-19 infection in inborn errors of immunity and their phenocopies: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Infect Dis (Lond). 2025 Jun; 57(6):483-517. The association between dietary intakes of zinc, vitamin C and COVID-19 severity and related symptoms: A cross-sectional study. Clin Nutr ESPEN. 2023 06; 55:244-250 COVID-19 Pandemic and Infant Neurodevelopmental Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 10 03; 5(10):e2238941. etc etc etc.

Not "supposedly." Rather, self-admitted. RFK Jr. says overcoming heroin addiction influences his policy perspectives "In a speech at the Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that his policy perspectives are influenced by the 14-year heroin addiction he overcame. ... Kennedy recounts experience By his own account, RFK Jr.'s first experience with drugs happened in the summer following his father's assassination in 1968. He took the hallucinogen LSD at a party, and while walking home later, he was introduced to opioids by his neighbors. “They said: ‘Try this,’ and it was a line of crystal meth,” he said. “I took it, and all my problems went away. My addiction came on full force. By the end of the summer, I was shooting heroin, which was my drug of choice the next 14 years.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/rfk-jr-heroin-addiction-influences-perspectives/83276464007/

I think you're confusing me with the OTHER poster whose relentlessly anti-vax threads citing a motley collection of misinformers and anonymous internet bloggers actually dominate this subforum. Mine are just a small trickle of fact-based content from credible and identifiable sources and organizations who publicly stand behind their research and findings -- unlike those who prefer to hide in the misinformation shadows.

Credible research by identifiable and credible researchers who publicly stand behind their work and report it to the public -- unlike your never-ending blizzard of anonymous and misinformation spewing internet bloggers.

More background on Memoli, a stooge for anti-vaxers Trump and Kennedy: Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants March 16, 2025 "A senior official at the National Cancer Institute confirmed that NIH acting Director Matthew Memoli sent an email across the NIH instructing that any grants, contracts, or collaborations involving mRNA vaccines be reported up the chain to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s office and the White House. Memoli sent a similar message ahead of the agency canceling other research, such as studies of vaccine hesitancy. Memoli’s email on that topic bluntly stated that NIH was not interested in learning why people shun vaccines or in exploring ways to “improve vaccine interest and commitment.” (emphasis added) ... Political conservatives in the U.S. have promulgated conspiracy theories, unsupported by scientific evidence, that the shots and their relatively new technology are dangerous. This has undermined public support for covid vaccinations and mRNA research. (more) https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nih-grants-mrna-vaccines-trump-administration-hhs-rfk/

He was a pseudo anti-COVID vax voice that could represent the Trump Admin and Kennedy's science-bereft views from within the government: --AI assisted

And more: COVID vaccines may have averted thousands of hospital stays in infants, pregnant women over 18 months October 1, 2025 "A US modeling study published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025. [emphasis added] ... Under a counterfactual scenario in which pregnant women didn't get vaccinated against COVID-19, an estimated 7,148 related hospitalizations of infants (in a population of 1.83 million within the United States) and 3,106 hospitalizations of pregnant women (in a population of 3 million) may have occurred during the study period. ... "Vaccination during pregnancy confers direct protection to newborns through transfer of maternal antibodies, conferring passive immunity to the infant for approximately 6 months, and is associated with significant reductions in infant hospitalizations," the study authors wrote. "Infants younger than 6 months are not eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, and their risk of severe COVID-19 is much higher than other pediatric age groups, often similar to those aged 65 to 74 years in the current epidemiologic era," they added. "Pregnancy also doubles the risk of severe COVID-19."\ (more) https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covid-vaccines-may-have-averted-thousands-hospital-stays-infants-pregnant-women-over-18