Texas lawmaker says he's not worried about measles outbreak because of ‘antibiotics'
Texas state representative Bill Zedler says a resurgence of measles across the U.S. isn't worrying him.
Zedler, R-Arlington, is promoting legislation that would allow Texans to opt out of childhood vaccinations.
“They want to say people are dying of measles. Yeah, in Third World countries they’re dying of measles,” Zedler said, the Texas Observer reports. “Today, with antibiotics and that kind of stuff, they’re not dying in America.”
There is no treatment for measles, a highly contagious virus that can be fatal. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections and can't kill viruses.
It could be funny if it weren't so tragic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:42AM
No, I'm not going to spend the time on this. But if you have ever modeled something you know it is not hard to get a fit to anything with enough adjustable parameters...
If I were to do it though, I would take their model (if it is actually available somewhere) and add in "dark measles" cases (the 85% unreported ones) that make it show what I want.