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BumRushDaShow

(153,192 posts)
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:19 PM Wednesday

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 didn’t hesitate at all,” Montes said. “I wasn’t 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 child’s 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 year’s average. “That means parents aren’t just getting the vaccine early, they’re 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 ), but who get drowned out by the idiots and MAGats in their state.

(one of my BILs lives in TX)
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When measles struck, a surge of parents stepped up to vaccinate their children (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Wednesday OP
All I can say is Hallelujah... Hekate Wednesday #1
Parents who have only suddenly wised-up are showing up at clinics with kids with measles... FailureToCommunicate Wednesday #2
I thought this story was written in 1955 SouthBayDem Wednesday #3

Hekate

(97,787 posts)
1. All I can say is Hallelujah...
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:28 PM
Wednesday

Somehow whooping cough didn’t really penetrate, even though babies get hospitalized, and then adults get sick too.

Polio still exists in the world…

FailureToCommunicate

(14,507 posts)
2. Parents who have only suddenly wised-up are showing up at clinics with kids with measles...
Wed May 21, 2025, 01:02 PM
Wednesday

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)
3. I thought this story was written in 1955
Wed May 21, 2025, 03:09 PM
Wednesday

Silly me. Perhaps this is what “great again” meant.

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