Denmark is in a chronic baby shortage [1] and people in Western democracies are having less sex generally [2]. So, yay, less HPV. Go get vaccinated [3]. Unfortunately, there are some pretty significant (and sad, yes, sad) confounders.

[1] https://www.sdu.dk/en/nyheder/faldende-fertilitet

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=western+democracies+decreasi...

[3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10399474/

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illiac786 4 days ago | parent [-]

Do you mean there is a causality between less sex and HPV vaccination, when you write “confounder”? I can’t find any study supporting this, hence double checking.

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fluoridation 4 days ago | parent [-]

I think maybe they mean that the fact that people are having less sex is confounding the cause-effect relationship between vaccination and fewer cases of HPV. I don't know about people having less sex, though. That seems hard to believe.

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		Ah, got it. That is a valid point.