Measles -- 2019

See also: "measles."

Updates

April 29, 2019: WSJ -- measles cases top last week's 25-year high as outbreak worsens; outbreak shows no sign of slowing with 78 new cases in past week.

April 28, 2019: "deer in the headlights." -- California officials. 

January 24, 2018: Texas could be first state to experience serious measles outbreak -- this was in The Dallas News over a year ago. 

Measles -- 2019

Re-posting (April 27, 2019):

In 2000, measles was "eradicated" from the US. Screenshots to follow.

Ten years later, ObamaCare was signed into law on March 23, 2010.

Less than a decade later, this headline: this is the worst year for measles in the US since the disease was eliminated nationally in 2000. But that's CNBC so it may be fake news. Let's fact check:

• Buzzfeed: measles outbreaks in the US are now the worst on record since the disease was eradicated (that word again: eradicated)
• CDC, Atlanta, Georgia: US measles cases at highest level since elimination nearly 20 years ago, according to CDC (for ESL readers: "eradication" and "elimination" are very similar in meaning)

Again, thank you Mr Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. The data suggests this has little to do with the "southern surge."

Timeline:

• measles eradication in the US
• that Lancet article (Lancet is the most prestigious medical journal in the world)
• Orrin Hatch
• ObamaCare
• social media
• measles epidemic in the US

Occasional-Cortex is looking better and better every day.

Cost of measles vaccine:

• MMRII: $75
• but for the really good stuff, ProQuad: $214.37 (the vaccine includes the "chickenpox vaccine)
• free to inmates and illegal immigrants