The Daily Beast reports:
While measles cases are popping up across the country, nowhere has been hit as hard as Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, just west of Fort Lauderdale. There, a single case reported Thursday spiraled into a half-dozen infected students by Tuesday evening. John J. Sullivan, a spokesperson for Broward County Public Schools, said the school underwent a deep cleaning and was safe for vaccinated students to continue going to class this week.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo wrote a letter Tuesday that urged the parents of unvaccinated students to keep them home until the school is confirmed to be rid of measles entirely. He said the infectious period would likely be over by March 7, and that the district would provide materials to keep the students learning while they’re physically away from school.
Read the full article. According to school officials, around 11% of the students have not gotten the traditional childhood vaccinations. Ladapo, as most of you surely know, is infamously anti-vax and has been accused of falsifying the results of a “vaccine injury risk” study.
FL Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo issues deeply irresponsible guidance to community hit with measles outbreak: notes “high likelihood of infection” for unvaxxed kids but leaves it to parents to decide what to do.
Reminder: ~1 in 5 who get measles will be hospitalized. pic.twitter.com/QRzKTRgLFu— Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH (@RMCarpiano) February 21, 2024
FL surgeon gen says unvaccinated kids can continue to go to school.
This is *unprecedented* Unvaccinated kids need to stay home for 21 days during an outbreak. Why? A very real chance of infection, hospitalization, death or serious damage to the immune system.
WHAT IS GOING ON pic.twitter.com/w3iStqjjH8
— Katelyn Jetelina (@dr_kkjetelina) February 21, 2024
Florida demon sperm “Surgeon” general who helped turn state into a petri dish of pestilence & ignorance defers to parents on if kids should return to school as measles outbreak hits a 6th unvaxxed child at school where 11% are unvaxxed.
Read more at: https://t.co/7uQQlhZyUG— Lesley Abravanel
(@lesleyabravanel) February 21, 2024