Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department ( www.theguardian.com )

givesomefucks , 16 days ago

would send Texas 2,000 doses

Yeah, that actually sounds reasonable for a small localized outbreak when most are already vaccinated...

A total of 164 measles cases were reported as of 27 February across Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas, information from the CDC showed. About 95% of those infected were unvaccinated people, including children whose parents did not follow CDC recommendations to get them immunized with safe, effective vaccines providing protection against measles as well as other easily preventable diseases. Another 3% were from people who received only one of the two required shots for immunity, CDC data showed on Friday.

These cases were reported in nine jurisdictions, including Kentucky, marking a near 80% jump from 93 cases reported a week ago.

Too bad it's fucking everywhere and spreading insanely quickly...

Redditsux , 16 days ago

2000 is laughable.
And they're having "measles" parties? lol gl!

Eatspancakes84 , 16 days ago

You don’t need measles parties. The virus is so contagious you more or less can get it by looking at an infected person if you are not already immune.

aramis87 , 15 days ago

Unfortunately, I suspect we're in the incubation phase of a likely superspreader event (the contagious kid who spent time in crowded college areas, two weeks before (a) symptoms appear and (b) one of those colleges goes on spring break).

I'm betting that, of the hundreds of people exposed and the couple dozen people who probably caught it, at least some of them will go on spring break, and infect other spring breakers who will then bring it home to their colleges. It'll have a couple months to spread there, then some of them will bring it home for the summer.

It sure would've been nice if we'd had politicians who were actually both sane and foresightful .... :(

Treczoks , 15 days ago

Wait until one of those Texan cow wranglers manages to crossbreed the measles he got from his "f-ck vaccines" support group with the avian flu he got from kissing his cows.