Vaccinate your children against these deadly and contagious viruses. This is horrifying. I blame the overreaction to COVID, too.
A third-grade class at Manatee Bay Elementary School has five measles cases, and over 50 children have symptoms.
The first case happened to a child “who had not recently traveled.”
11% of the students at the school do not have their measles vaccines.
Do you know what is deadly and contagious? Measles, even if you are a very healthy person.
Then again, I also thought schools required these vaccines. Why aren’t they vigilant about the requirements?
From CBS Miami:
“We received updated information from the Florida Department of Health – Broward regarding one additional confirmed case of measles at Manatee Bay Elementary School. This brings the total number of cases to five.”The Florida Department of Health is carrying out an epidemiological investigation surrounding the multiple cases of measles at the elementary school in Weston.”Please note all details regarding the investigation are confidential,” the agency stated. “DOH-Broward is continuously working with all partners including Broward County Public Schools and local hospitals to identify contacts that are at risk of transmission.””This really has been confined to that particular area and I know people have come through the hospital but there have not been confirmed cases, just people coming in concerned,” said school board member Debbie Hixon.
The kids who have the vaccine are 98% protected from the measles. Remember, when you get a vaccine, you are helping people who cannot have the vaccine. Immunocompromised people like me cannot have the vaccine:
According to DOH-Broward, measles is highly contagious and can remain infectious in the air and on surfaces for up to two hours, with over a 90% contraction rate among susceptible contacts, including those who are immunocompromised or have not received the full series of MMR vaccinations.DOH-Broward stated that symptoms generally begin about eight to 14 hours after exposure but can range up to 21 days. Transmission is possible four days before the rash becomes visible and four days after it appears. Additionally, in some cases, measles can result in severe outcomes, including pneumonia and encephalitis.
One pediatrician is frustrated that parents won’t vaccinate their kids because they fear misinformation.
The pediatrician should be angry at the CDC and others for their reactions to COVID:
Most children get the MMR — or measles, mumps and rubella — vaccine, but with a disease as contagious as measles, doctors say it only takes a few holdouts to fuel an outbreak. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Florida among the states in which parents using a religious exemption to opt their children out of traditional childhood vaccinations is trending upward.“Definitely, parents today are much more hesitant than ever. We actually are struggling in our pediatric practices to get kids completely immunized, to complete their series by the time they enter kindergarten because parents are scared, they’re kind of feeding into this misinformation,” said Dr. Lisa Gwynn, a pediatrician who teaches pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. “It is extremely unfortunate because it’s all preventable, and the measles vaccine has been around a long time and it’s safe and effective, so the fact that we are still seeing this in modern times is really unfortunate, it’s also dangerous for the community, measles is an extremely infectious and contagious virus.”
The data is protected, especially since the affected are minors. But I also wonder how many of them are children of illegal immigrants who have no vaccine records or ability to get vaccines in their country.
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