Did you get your flu shot yet? How about your Covid vaccine? Or did you and your kids get vaccinated for measles?

No? Well that’s why the state health department is forced to issue this kind of statement:

“Measles is highly contagious and there is risk for continued, rapid spread of the disease in the Upstate among communities with low immunization rates,” said the state’s epidemiologist, Dr. Linda Bell, on Thursday.

Just having to issue such a statement must drive public health officials crazy. Why? Because measles was officially declared eliminated in the United States by the World Health Organization in 2000 – until preening politicians and anti-vaccination activists got in the business of spreading outright falsehoods about vaccinations. If people would turn off information from no

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