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1. CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Mar 29, 2025, 02:55 PM

Mar 2025

by Patricia Callahan
March 28, 2025, 4:35 p.m. EDT

Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

In an aborted plan to roll out the news, the agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show ...

https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report

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Sounds like that horse is out of the barn leftyladyfrommo Mar 2025 #4