How convenient
People who don't vaccinate are the problem, and of course, the vaccine is the solution!
https://nypost.com/2019/06/11/new-measles-cases-down-amid-vaccine-push/
This is media bias. Who is to say who really knows?
This article is pure propaganda. They have no idea how many people in NY had measles because so so so many people didn't go to the doctor because they WANTED to get the measles.
They are not afraid of the measles. They didn't die.
Fearmongering 101.
Good job, NY Post.
Pathetic.
https://nypost.com/2019/06/11/new-measles-cases-down-amid-vaccine-push/
This is media bias. Who is to say who really knows?
This article is pure propaganda. They have no idea how many people in NY had measles because so so so many people didn't go to the doctor because they WANTED to get the measles.
They are not afraid of the measles. They didn't die.
Fearmongering 101.
Good job, NY Post.
Pathetic.
New measles cases down amid vaccine push
The city is gaining ground in its battle against the measles outbreak gripping Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community, health officials said Tuesday — as they announced the closure of a tenth school for not complying with vaccination requirements.
“We’re cautiously optimistic, but we’re not taking anything for granted,” Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said during a Board of Health meeting held in Queens.
Officials said 588 cases of the potentially deadly virus have been confirmed in the city since September. Of those, 537 were in Orthodox Jewish sections of Williamsburg and Borough Park, according to officials.
But the frequency in reported cases is dropping amid a rise in city-ordered vaccinations. There were 177 new infections in April — when the city declared the outbreak a public-health emergency and ordered kids in affected areas vaccinated — and just 86 cases in May, officials said.
Only five cases have been reported so far this month.
“We are seeing a dramatic rise in the number of individuals living in Williamsburg and Borough Park — as well as across the city — getting vaccinated against the measles,” Barbot said.
Now city health authorities are mounting a campaign to educate so-called anti-vaxxers who swear off vaccines because they believe, despite copious medical evidence to the contrary, that the shots cause health problems.
“This is like hand-to-hand combat with the anti-vaxxers,” Barbot said of the city’s efforts to grapple with misinformed parents.
Since the outbreak, 48 people have landed in the hospital including who 17 needed to go to the intensive-care unit.
Four schools and five Pre-K facilities were forced to temporarily close for defying the mayor’s April 9 dictate by accepting un-vaccinated kids but have since reopened, officials said.
On Tuesday, a 10th school was shuttered.
Williamsburg yeshiva Central UTA Boys Division was closed “for failing to exclude staff and students who did not have documentation of immunity,” the Health Department said in a press release issued after the Board of Health meeting.
The school will be able reopen once it proves it’s corrected the issue, officials said.
The city has also issued 173 summonses for un-vaccinated individuals — mainly children, whose parents are responsible for answering the citations, according to Health Department authorities.
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