When we checked on reports of a major measles outbreak in Chicago this spring, my Legal Insurrection colleague Mary Chastain indicated that health officials traced the outbreak to an illegal alien shelter.
When it was all over, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 84 percent of measles cases in the outbreak at the Chicago migrant center were linked to Venezuelan immigrants.
Now, it appears that New York City’s migrant shelter has a measles outbreak.
Two people living in a Brooklyn migrant shelter have tested positive for measles — raising the number of cases across the city to 11 this year.Health officials scrambled to determine who else has been exposed at the Clinton Hill facility, a massive shelter, which opened at at 47 Hall St. last summer, which houses more than 3,000 adult migrants, according to City Council Member Crystal Hudson.Testing is being limited to the first floor where the two infected residents lived.Health officials are also assessing vaccination documentation. Anyone who isn’t immune will have to quarantine for 21 days, according to Hudson.
For some strange reasons, there has been a steady rise in the number of cases. “Experts” are quick to point out a decline in the vaccination rates as the reason for the uptick.
The same upward trend is reflected nationally, as reported cases of measles in the United States have more than doubled so far this year compared with all of last year, worrying health officials. As of Thursday, 167 cases had been reported across the country, C.D.C. data shows. And 58 cases were reported nationally in all of 2023.There have also been 13 outbreaks of the disease in the United States so far this year, according to the agency. A measles outbreak is defined as three or more related cases of the illness.In May, the C.D.C. reported that a single measles case at a Chicago migrant shelter in March had led to an outbreak of 57 cases. Most of the cases were among unvaccinated people, according to the agency.Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the C.D.C., said in March that the national rise in measles cases should “alert us, rather than alarm us.”The disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, but pockets of outbreaks have emerged in recent decades, particularly as anti-vaccination movements have grown.
Here is a chart of measles cases from 2020 to 2024. What could have possibly happened in 2021?
NYC residents are certainly enjoying some interesting benefits from being in a “Sanctuary City“.
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