What Next - Florida's Anti-Vaxxers Won. Then the Measles Surged.
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Measles happens, but this outbreak in Florida is unfolding in a post-pandemic world where mistrust in public health officials and vaccinations is practically the party line.
Guest: Lauren Weber, Washington Post accountability reporter focused on scientific and medical disinformation.
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| 0:25.0 | Soul traders or limited company directors in the UK can apply. Right now, the Manatee Bay Elementary School, just outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida has got a problem. The problem is measles. |
| 0:47.0 | The measles outbreak in Broward spreading, nine cases now confirmed, seven connected to Manatee Bay Elementary in |
| 0:56.0 | Westin. Measles is actually spreading around the country with cases popping up in |
| 1:01.0 | 15 states from New Jersey to California. |
| 1:04.3 | If the cases keep rising, the superintendent said it will be up to the state to act, |
| 1:09.5 | but he finds it strange to be dealing with a disease that was nearly eradicated. |
| 1:15.0 | But what's happening in Florida is a little different. |
| 1:18.0 | It's a wake-up call in a community that has been left on edge following these cases. |
| 1:25.0 | To start, it helps to remember how big of a deal measles is. |
| 1:32.0 | It is one of the most infectious pathogens in the world. |
| 1:35.9 | And Lauren Weber at the Washington Post says it's not just that this virus can spread. |
| 1:42.1 | It can really take you down. About one in five |
| 1:45.0 | unvaccinated people in the US who contract it end up hospitalized. For |
| 1:49.8 | unvaccinated babies about one in 600 develop a fatal neurological complication that can lie |
| 1:55.3 | dormant for years I mean there's just some scary side effects. |
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