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Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it's fine to send unvaccinated kids to school (www.cbsnews.com)
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With a brief memo, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has subverted a public health standard that's long kept measles outbreaks under control.

On Feb. 20, as measles spread through Manatee Bay Elementary in South Florida, Ladapo sent parents a letter granting them permission to send unvaccinated children to school amid the outbreak.

The Department of Health "is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance," wrote Ladapo, who was appointed to head the agency by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose name is listed above Ladapo's in the letterhead.

Ladapo's move contradicts advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"This is not a parental rights issue," said Scott Rivkees, Florida's former surgeon general who is now a professor at Brown University. "It's about protecting fellow classmates, teachers, and members of the community against measles, which is a very serious and very transmissible illness."

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Just a friendly reminder that the R∅ for measles is 12 to 18 making one of the most infectious diseases of the modern world.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For comparison: the R∅ of the 1918 Spanish flu was estimated to be between 1.4 and 2.8.

Early-COVID was estimated around 2 as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Covids less even now, but you become infectious so much sooner that it actually spreads faster.

You can get 3-5 generations of covid before the first generation of measels is contagious

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If an unvaccinated person enters a room where a person with measles had been an hour previously, there's a 90% chance the unvaccinated person gets infected. It's crazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Now just think about when small pox was a thing...