Posted on 02/23/2024 4:10:47 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
As a Florida elementary school tries to contain a growing measles outbreak, the state’s top health official is giving advice that runs counter to science and may leave unvaccinated children at risk of contracting one of the most contagious pathogens on Earth, clinicians and public health experts said.
Florida surgeon general Joseph A. Ladapo failed to urge parents to vaccinate their children or keep unvaccinated students home from school as a precaution in a letter to parents at the Fort Lauderdale-area school this week following six confirmed measles cases.
Instead of following what he acknowledged was the “normal” recommendation that parents keep unvaccinated children home for up to 21 days — the incubation period for measles — Ladapo said the state health department “is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance.” The controversial move by Ladapo follows a pattern of bucking public health norms, particularly when it comes to vaccines. Last month, he called for halting the use of mRNA coronavirus vaccines, in a move decried by the public health community.
Ben Hoffman, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said Florida’s guidance flies in the face of long-standing and widely accepted public health guidance for measles, which can result in severe complications, including death.....
“The reason why there is a measles outbreak in Florida schools is because too many parents have not had their children protected by the safe and effective measles vaccine,” said John P. Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. “And why is that? It’s because anti-vaccine sentiment in Florida comes from the top of the public health food-chain: Joseph Ladapo.”
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Uncontrolled borders are so sciencey, eh?
“BS, it’s because of disease carrying illegal aliens coming into this country.”
You beat me to it. That’s exactly the reason why. Funny, Michael Yon has been warning about this for at least a few years now, specifically because of the invasion that the regime is promoting.
And I don’t see the enemedia having a cow about TB, meanwhile.
Isn’t that interesting...
ILLEGAL ALIENS !
Fauci, the WHO and CDC sold their collective souls to peddle a flawed vaccine to cash in on a manufactured crisis. The fallout is a total loss of credibility for any alleged public health emergency and any alleged remedy. Trust is a fragile thing that is slowly acquired and can be lost in an instant. Obviously wisdom is also a scarce commodity in this age.
Uhh... I'm pretty sure any child in Florida schools must be up on their immunizations before being allowed in to school...
Immigration is a policy issue.
That’s not going to get worked out in time to address -this- measles outbreak if we assume that cases are due to illegal immigration.
So what to do? Make the best data informed decision possible. If that means get vaccinated or stay at home for approx 21 days or go to school - make that decision.
Most directly, it’s up to the parent or guardian what they do. If your children get measles - it’s your issue to deal with as best you can.
Exactly.
When a young child has covid they do not seem sick. When I had measles as a kid, no way could I have gone to school. My mom didn’t need to be told to keep me home, it was self evident.
Measles, German measles, mumps, chicken pox...all normal right of passage. Just keep pregnant women away.
Not us them, the government has allowed invaders unvaccinated invaders into this country period!
I’ll likely get flamed for this, but let the kids get the measles.
Yes. I know that there were complications from measles in the past and I know what they are. On the flip side, modern medicine has made great strides in treating the viral and bacterial complications of diseases like measles that weren’t available back in the 60’s. i have no doubt many of those complications can be avoided with appropriate medical intervention. Then again, there is that matter of trusting the medical community to do the right thing in treating it. What a Catch 22.
Besides, if the vaccines fail to take and a person comes down with measles as an adult, they are in a world of hurt.
I had measles when I was a kid in the 60’s.
I had a week out of school which was great!.................
Some kids have it worse than others.
Me, I just had a fever and that was about it.
Other than that, it was like a vacation from school for a week!...................
Just found out vaccine associated measles is a thing...
Who knew!
They are invading bioterrorists allowed into the U.S. by traitorous Demonicrats.
Vaccine-associated measles in a healthy 40-year-old woman
Looks like the vaxx took, all right...
A decade earlier, I had at least two kids of measles. The 7 day kind and the German kind. My mind says there was a third but I have no clear recollection.
I don’t remember any treatment. You got red spots. You had to stay in the dark or at least subdued daylight.
As I recall, everybody got them along with chicken pox and mumps.
The Washington comPost hates black people who don’t stay in the Democrat plantation.
Well, since WAPO is throwing ad-hominines at FL I’ll throw some back.
The MMR vaccine causes brain inflammation resulting in brain damage, autism, ASD and death in children. And the WAPO and big pharma do not care.
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