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Most counties don’t have their own health agencies, and some specific population groups have low vaccination rates

Pennsylvania is bracing for a wave of measles cases, with some public health officials concerned that it’s “only a matter of time” until the disease spreads beyond the outbreak’s epicenter.

Last week the state reported its fifth measles-associated death amid 943 confirmed cases across 39 counties. The outbreak comes amid concerns that public health in the US has been hit by increasing vaccine skepticism, especially due to the power and influence of controversial health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Contributing to the challenge is that Pennsylvania is one of the few US states where its counties mostly lack their own health department, with only seven of its 67 counties having their own.

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[-] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

It's like a flashing neon sign that says "We're morons". Nobody does stupid like americans.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

"Some specific population groups have low vaccination rates." Oooo! I know which groups. I know!

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Amish and Mennonite populations have had a lot of vaccine hesitancy for a long time.

Unfortunately, vaccines are a victim of their own success and people born into a situation in which certain diseases are virtually nonexistent because of those vaccines can craft or fall for a bullshit narrative about how it's always been like that, and the vaccines were not even necessary "because mah immune system". 🙄

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 21 hours ago

My father nearly died of polio as a kid. This was before the vax. My mother was slightly younger and remembered getting the vax because it was a big deal. It's super cool how lunatics are undoing all the progress we made protecting children from diseases. Let's have more suffering, isn't that great? Ffs.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago
[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Not really, this is an Amish/Mennonite chronic problem. They would not listen to RFK either way.

[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago
[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 10 hours ago

he looks way more worn down leathery than that.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago
[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Well, killing off stupid people is kinda making the country better.

[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

How do you know if the kids are stupid before they die? Intelligence isn't exactly proven to be genetic.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

It's partly genetic and partly how they're educated by their parents. So pretty good chance they'll be stipid. Nothing we can do about it anyway but laugh or cry, and I'd prefer to laugh.

[-] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 6 points 18 hours ago

I’d prefer less dead children.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

cars and guns should be your target to ban. They are the two biggest killers of children.

The Dutch had mass, often violet, protests in the 1970's because cars were killing kids. They changed their entire society because they wanted less dead kids, Most other nations think dead kids is a fair trade. Something in us is broken

[-] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 2 points 5 hours ago

cars and guns should be your target to ban.

Okay, but if you look all the way up at OPs post the discussion is about a measles outbreak.

It would be kind of an odd non-sequitur for me to randomly shoehorn my thoughts about cars and guns in America into a conversation about a measles outbreak and anti-vaxxers…

[-] NABDad@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Sitting here reading this wondering what kind of shithead thinks cats are killing children. Is it the "cats steal your breath" bullshit again?

Then I read on. Oh "cars" not "cats".

[-] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

We have to get a control group for the experiment of breaking up the MMR vaccine somehow.

[-] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago

I guess you’ll have to forgive me for thinking jokes about dead children through adult negligence and malfeasance isn’t funny.

[-] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 4 points 21 hours ago

Send in KennyDee (otherwise known as Dr. WormBrain) - he'll eat the infected ones and shit out clean disease free poop with his "no wipe behind".

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