The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported that the state has 111 reported measles cases in upstate South Carolina, in the state’s northwest region.
As of Wednesday, upstate South Carolina has 27 new cases.
The location includes Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson.
Overall, South Carolina has reported 114 measles cases, with over 250 people in a 21-day quarantine.
Most of those in quarantine are unvaccinated children. From The Post and Courier:
Most of the new cases — 16 — were associated with the Way of Truth Church in Inman, where there were at least nine previous cases. The church, which lists no phone number, has not responded to emails from The Post and Courier.A school in that area, Inman Intermediate, also had an exposure, and 43 students currently are quarantined there.Of the other new cases, eight lived in a home with a known case, one was from another school exposure with a known case, one was exposed at “a health care setting” and, in one case, the source has not been identified, public health said.
Apparently, the number of parents requesting religious exemptions from vaccines skyrocketed over the summer.
The Post and Courier discovered that over “6,400 students this year are not vaccinated in Spartanburg County, where nearly all of the cases have originated.”
Leading the downward trend is Spartanburg County. A year ago, Spartanburg already had one of the lowest inoculation rates in South Carolina, at 89.9 percent. That rate has now dropped to 88.8 percent, placing Spartanburg last among all 46 counties.Those pockets of unvaccinated children — 6,425 of them in Spartanburg alone — make a difference, experts said.The measles virus is among the most infectious known. Even with 85 to 90 percent of kids vaccinated in a school, those who are unvaccinated become a big target for it, said Dr. Kent Stock, hospital epidemiologist at Roper St. Francis Healthcare.“It’s going to find those kids unfortunately,” he said.Of the 81 outbreak cases with a known vaccination status, 77 were unvaccinated and three were partially vaccinated, with only one fully vaccinated, the state’s public health officials have noted.
I also wonder how many of them are not American citizens. President Joe Biden’s administration pushed the COVID vaccine but let in anyone, and did they check their vaccine records? Probably not.
Here’s the other thing. Schools require vaccines. How are these unvaccinated kids in school!? That’s what made immigration pop into my head.
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