Texas Nexus

“A measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico has killed a child and sickened more than 130 people, and public health experts fear it’s only the beginning. It’s an entirely avoidable health emergency fueled by weaknesses in our vaccine forcefield.” Bloomberg (Gift Article): Measles Outbreak Was Entirely Avoidable. (And the outbreak couldn’t come at a more precarious time: The beginning of the RFK Jr tenure, an era we should have avoided like the plague.)

+ “A child in Texas has died from measles, officials said Wednesday, the first known death in the current large outbreak in West Texas and the first death from measles in the country since 2015. The individual, described as a school-aged child, was not vaccinated.” Stat: Texas measles outbreak marks first fatality as more cases reported.