Pennsylvania is seekingemergency assistance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a major measles outbreakspreads across the state. The state warned the request could be withdrawn unless the federal agency publicly recognizes four measles-associated deaths reported by the state.

The Pennsylvania department of health has begun the process of requesting CDC emergency support known as an Epi-Aid

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago

What do they expect from the CDC? Post-mortem vaccinations?

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    Kennedy has questioned whether deaths linked to the measles outbreaks since he took office were caused by the virus or by another condition. He also instructed the CDC not to include Pennsylvania’s reported fatalities in the national measles death count last month, a move health experts called “highly unusual” and warned it could lead the public to underestimate the dangers of measles.

    /facepalm

    Kennedy, meanwhile, has accused Shapiro of politicizing Pennsylvania’s outbreak and failing to seek out federal assistance.

    Oh. FUCK YOU.

    Fuck you and this entire administration and the idiotic voters that enabled donnie coming to power. This is from the movement whose party has politicized everything, including not only the weather but also every aspect of science, including our response to the pandemic and to vaccines for diseases for things like measles.

    To then have the audacity to claim others are the ones politicizing things.

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    Bro WTF, they should start isolating infected people, this will only get worse. Measles is like one of the most infectious diseases we know of, it has like 90% or something ridiculous like that infectivity rate.

    Unvaccinated people should not be left to roam about infecting more people. What a shit show.

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