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Pennsylvania health officials brace themselves as measles outbreak expected to spread
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he looks way more worn down leathery than that.
Not really, this is an Amish/Mennonite chronic problem. They would not listen to RFK either way.
They've been vaccine hesitant from the outset. However, if you have the general population holding to at least herd immunity levels, you don't have much of a problem. Amish are .74% of the PA population. I was trying to figure out how many Mennonites are in PA, but I'm not finding reliable results - since they are commonly confused with Amish (and Hutterites).
What is different now is the vaccine denialism in the wider culture. The idiotic vaccine denialism has been ticking up as older generations (that knew better) die off, but now we have an actual vaccine denialist running the HHS. I'm sure having donnie and him having a platform where they spread absolute fucking nonsense has had, and is going to have, more people opt out.
This is from a year ago:
https://www.wesanews.org/health-science-tech/2025-09-30/routine-vaccination-rates-decline-pennsylvania-kindergarteners