MedPage Today November 18, 2025
Science has been lost amidst politics and patchwork state health policy
Back in 2019, measles cases began to spread rapidly in New York’s Orthodox Jewish community. The city and Rockland County officials responded forcefully, declaring a public health emergency, conducting community outreach, and vaccinating three times as many people as the community’s prior annual baseline. The virus infected over 1,200 people nationwide in 2019, but within a year, the outbreak was under control.
Also beginning in a small religious community, this year’s measles outbreak emerged in a west Texas Mennonite community with low vaccine coverage. The case rate has surpassed 2019’s and continues to rise, fueled by decreased measles vaccination rates and nationwide spread to nearly every state.
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