Measles spreading in Utah, Oregon and California
Utah has hundreds of cases, Oregon and California are reporting cases in the single digits, but RFK JR’s MAHA movement is certainly sweeping the nation in one way.
It didn’t have to be this way. Measles is a totally preventable disease; the vaccine is safe and effective. Parents like the South Carolinians we blogged about yesterday may have their heads in the sand and their hearts filled with God, but their children are filled with suffering.
The Utah Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday reported that the state has now had 300 confirmed measles cases in this latest outbreak, with 58 of those cases reported in the last three weeks.
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The Utah Department of Health and Human Services recommends that everyone be vaccinated against measles, typically requiring two doses of the MMR vaccine. For those who are vaccinated, 97% are well protected; however, about 3% of those exposed will still get sick, though they are less likely to have severe illness or spread measles to others than those who are not vaccinated.
The Salt Lake County Health Department said Wednesday that people who were born before 1957, had a previous confirmed measles infection or have had two doses of the MMR vaccine are considered immune.
Of the 300 cases in this ongoing outbreak, the health department said 255 were people not vaccinated, 23 had been vaccinated and the remainder had an unknown vaccination status. One in every 12 cases in Utah has led to hospitalization.
That vaccines have become this weird mountain the die on for folks, where somehow they are smarter than the CDC used to be, and could outguess modern science. The idea that vaccines are full of things you don’t want in your child’s body, or that we need too many vaccines, is ridiculous. The science is well understood; it is the social contract among us that has been broken.