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Emergency Declared in Rockland County, NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces

posted by chromas on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the vax-papers-please dept.

martyb writes:

Emergency Declared in NY over Measles: Unvaccinated Barred from Public Spaces:

Plagued by a tenacious outbreak of measles that began last October, New York's Rockland County declared a state of emergency Tuesday and issued a directive barring unvaccinated children from all public spaces.

Effective at midnight Wednesday, March 27, anyone aged 18 or younger who has not been vaccinated against the measles is prohibited from public spaces in Rockland for 30 days or until they get vaccinated. Public spaces are defined broadly in the directive as any places:

[W]here more than 10 persons are intended to congregate for purposes such as civic, governmental, social, or religious functions, or for recreation or shopping, or for food or drink consumption, or awaiting transportation, or for daycare or educational purposes, or for medical treatment. A place of public assembly shall also include public transportation vehicles, including but not limited to, publicly or privately owned buses or trains...

The directive follows an order from the county last December that barred unvaccinated children from schools that did not reach a minimum of 95 percent vaccination rate. That order—and the directive issued today—are intended to thwart the long-standing outbreak, which has sickened 153 people, mostly children.

What were they waiting for? A pox on them all?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by EvilSS on Wednesday March 27 2019, @07:29PM (2 children)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 27 2019, @07:29PM (#820890)
    When I was a kid, your parents had to have the doctor send a state vaccination form to the school when you registered to prove you were vaccinated. I had to do the same when I went to college.
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  • (Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Wednesday March 27 2019, @09:02PM

    by Taibhsear (1464) on Wednesday March 27 2019, @09:02PM (#820948)

    Same here. You needed to show medical records of what vaccinations you've had or the results of a titer test showing what antibodies you have corresponding to the vaccinations.

  • (Score: 2) by dry on Thursday March 28 2019, @05:37AM

    by dry (223) on Thursday March 28 2019, @05:37AM (#821190) Journal

    We just showed the smallpox scar where we were vaccinated. I believe that was the only pre-school vaccination. Later we got jabbed and a sugar cube at school, besides the polio, not sure what other vaccinations we even got. I've had measles, chicken pox, whooping cough and the mumps, which was normal back then. The only thing that almost killed me was tonsillitis.