At a time when American has stooge for top Federal Health Dept guy?
We have a another serious disease growing among the public..
Will this guy fight kids getting vaccinated for their health and safety?.
Late-night emails sent to parents informing them that someone in their child’s classroom has been infected with measles. Pediatricians fielding calls from concerned mothers about the vaccination status of their children. An anxious father running into the waiting room of a hospital, a sick baby in his arms, asking for help.
What began in the fall as a trickle of measles infections in Spartanburg County, S.C., has since grown into an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people, prompted more than 250 residents to quarantine and unsettled many more. Across the upstate region of South Carolina, a conservative stronghold where both the manufacturing industry and the population has boomed in recent years, many families have felt familiar echoes of the pandemic this week.
Some children who were near infected classmates have resorted to remote learning, with adults calling out from work to take care of them. Frustrations about the length of quarantines are bubbling up in the community. And national divisions over the efficacy of vaccines that deepened during the pandemic have remained as pertinent as ever, with many in Spartanburg still resistant to vaccinations, especially those meant for their children.
As pediatric hospitals brace for cases to rise, health officials are working to inform families that the vaccine for measles, a virus that was declared eliminated from the United States more than two decades ago, is safe and effective….
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In the 2024-25 school year, about 90 percent of students in Spartanburg County had all of the required childhood immunizations, including the measles, mumps and rubella shot, commonly known as the M.M.R. vaccine. That’s slightly below the national average and below the 95 percent target that experts consider necessary to stem the spread of measles.
The level of worry in Spartanburg, though, appears to be correlated with whether or not one believes in the general efficacy of vaccines, an “anti-vax” notion that has been spearheaded in part by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s health secretary.
In interviews on Friday, some residents dismissed the rise in measles as an overblown problem….
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Flashback?
How many people died before things got SERIOUS about dealing with Covid?
Not stated in the article,Kimbrell is running for Governor.
Not surprising though as there is little evidence of an active campaign .
This area of SC where the outbreak is occurring is hardcore MAGA and Republican officeholders ,even at the state level ,are being very careful about their comments so as not to anger the kooks.Kimbrells statement is one of the most blatant so far.
According to state health officials ,96% of the children infected were not vaccinated.
Again?
A Covid REPEAT
MOST States WILL. make shots mandatory