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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?
(Score: 1, Troll) by stormreaver on Wednesday March 27 2019, @04:51PM (3 children)
Which makes no sense whatsoever, once you understand that the vaccine does not protect against transmission. The only one affected by the vaccine is the one receiving it. The vaccinated and unvaccinated alike are both transmission vectors. The vaccinated are probably more likely to spread Measles since there is a 100% chance that they carry the virus for at least several days (and possibly much longer) after receiving the vaccine. While the unvaccinated have a lesser chance of carrying the virus, since they weren't purposely injected with it.
There's more, but this NY policy is a swing and a miss.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:13PM (2 children)
I can only hope someone downvotes this because it is complete nonsense.
While the virus used for vaccination is live, it is not only weakened but also not just any random strain. Even if transmission should be possible, you do NOT infect people with actual measles.
That would be like calling the bird flu H1N1 just because they are both a flu virus. Wrong and misleading.
(Score: 2) by stormreaver on Thursday March 28 2019, @01:16AM (1 child)
So Merck marketing people say. But they are known to have lied to protect Merck's vaccine profits at the expense of the public.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @02:13AM
According to their latest financial filing, MMR2 made up just under 1.42% of sales, and markedly less than that of profit. Yeah, in terms of raw dollars, the money they make in sales sounds like a lot, but compared to the tens of billions of dollars in profit, let alone raw sales, it is basically a rounding error. Plus, big companies care about profit margins and vaccines have almost none compared to the latest and greatest drugs they pump out.