When measles struck, a surge of parents stepped up to vaccinate their children
Source: NBC News
ay 21, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
Kala Hunter did not hesitate to get her 2-year-old son, Brady, fully vaccinated in March as the number of measles cases grew in her West Texas community. Being in the hotbed of the measles outbreak, said Hunter, 47, of Lubbock, it was a no-brainer. If it was safe to get him vaccinated early, we were going to protect him.
Harmony Montes, 21, also of Lubbock, said she felt the same way. As the outbreak escalated in April, Montes jumped at the chance to get her daughter, Melody Rocha, vaccinated at her six-month checkup. We didnt hesitate at all, Montes said. I wasnt going to risk her health.
The moms represent a recent surge in Texas parents opting to get their babies and toddlers the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination as soon as possible. Hunter said that her childs doctor assured her that the second vaccine dose was safe. I trust my pediatrician, she said. Neither kid has had side effects like fever or rash from the shot, Hunter and Montes said.
New data from Truveta, a health care and analytics company, shows that the percentage of 6-month-old babies in Texas getting their measles vaccination in April increased by more than 30 times the prior years average. That means parents arent just getting the vaccine early, theyre getting it as early as they can, Nina Masters, a senior scientist at Truveta and part of the research team, said in an interview with NBC News.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-vaccine-effort-parents-babies-rcna207819
Thankfully a RARE article about the SANE half of Texans who we all know exist (because they post on DU

(one of my BILs lives in TX)

Hekate
(97,787 posts)Somehow whooping cough didnt really penetrate, even though babies get hospitalized, and then adults get sick too.
Polio still exists in the world
FailureToCommunicate
(14,507 posts)and are turned away when told it's too late. Even school age kids -who are required to be inoculated for school- either the parents lie, or they claim they have been home-schooling. This endangers anyone else in the health clinics at the time they walk in.
SouthBayDem
(32,666 posts)Silly me. Perhaps this is what great again meant.