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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:02PM (2 children)
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @09:15AM
A guess: "Well, it might rain, or it might not rain. Let's toss a coin. Heads means take an umbrella."
A prediction: "There are dark clouds on the horizon. It might rain. Better take an umbrella."
(Score: 2) by Taibhsear on Friday March 29 2019, @05:31PM
Because unless the mutation fatally debilitates the virus it still functions the same way every year. You just have to make new antibody types for the newly mutated strains each time.