Politico September 23, 2024
With help from Sophie Gardner
Driving The Day
A NEW MEASLES NORMAL? Measles, once declared eliminated in the U.S., is making an alarming comeback. With 13 measles outbreaks already reported this year — compared with four last year — public health officials are concerned, Sophie reports.
In the years since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, measles, mumps and rubella vaccine coverage for kindergarteners fell 2 percent and hasn’t recovered — meaning that “76,000 more children are not up to date on their vaccinations,” a CDC spokesperson told POLITICO. The latest data available is from the 2022-2023 school year.
Outbreaks have popped up nationwide this year, with the largest occurrences in California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Oregon.
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