Measles in Florida: Back to the Middle Ages

Here's an excerpt showing the latest advice from "Doctor" Joseph Ladapo regarding  the measles outbreak in Florida. This is dereliction of duty, and he ought to lose his license to practice quackery:

From NBC News:

Measles is a 'heat-seeking missile' experts warn as Florida outbreak grows
A seventh case, the first in a child under age 5, follows the state’s controversial surgeon general’s decision to let parents decide whether to quarantine children or keep them in school.

"The Florida measles outbreak is expanding. On Friday, health officials in Broward County confirmed a seventh case of the virus, a child under age 5.

"The patient is the youngest so far to be infected in the outbreak, and the first to be identified outside of Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, near Fort Lauderdale.

"It’s unknown what connection the youngest measles case has to the school, but the spread beyond school-age kids was expected."

Cases are 'not going to stay contained just to that one school, not when a virus is this infectious,' said Dr. David Kimberlin, co-director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that as of Friday there have been at least 35 measles cases in 15 states in 2024 — most related to international travel. In January, there were nine measles cases in Pennsylvania, eight of them in Philadelphia. (If there are no more cases reported there as of early next week, the Philadelphia outbreak will be declared over.) Late Friday, Michigan’s health department announced that it, too, had identified a measles case — its first since 2019.

"Florida’s outbreak is the largest in the U.S. right now. And what Florida’s health officials are doing — or not doing — is drawing fire from experts who study the way diseases spread.

"Measles is so contagious and has such a long incubation period that the decision of the state’s Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo to let parents decide whether to quarantine their children or let them keep going to school could allow cases to spread, experts warn."

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Do you believe this?  What Ladapo is recommending is reckless endangerment, but the parents who agree with him are just as bad.

What kind of "parents" would actually send their contagious children to school knowing they are unvaccinated and knowing they have measles? Unfortunately, there are plenty of ignorant parents in this country who neither care about the well-being of their own kids or that of the kids who will catch measles from them

I hate to think how this Florida outbreak is going to spread, and how many serious complications and even deaths occur as a result.

We need fewer Ladapos and anti-vaxxers in this country or else we will quickly return to the Middle Ages of disease and death.