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Across the country, confirmed cases are nearing 2,000, closing in on the highest number since 1992.

As measles continues to spread in the United States, it’s likely that the outbreaks that broke records in 2025 will continue into the new year.

In South Carolina, 168 people, mostly schoolchildren, are in quarantine. Most of the state's 138 cases confirmed since September, nearly all in unvaccinated people, have been centered in Spartanburg County in the northwestern part of the state.

“As we identify new cases, and if those cases have susceptible contacts, that’s a new 21-day quarantine period,” Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist for the state Department of Public Health, said Wednesday at what has become a weekly news briefing.

That is, anyone who is unvaccinated and therefore vulnerable to measles exposures occurring now will be in quarantine through the holidays.

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Back when COVID was rampaging through the US, you could consistently find high concentrations of infected people in and around prisons. Dense living conditions, poor hygenie and nutrition, and a stubborn refusal to provide routine medical care to either the prisoners or the staff turned these placed into petri dishes for the disease.

Day cares, schools, churches, and military bases function the same way, for similar reasons. Lots of immuno-compromised people in close proximity either unwilling or unable to self-segregate when they show symptoms. Few staffers who know enough to spot illness, or education/resources to provide relief, mean sick people infect everyone around them day after day.

And now we've got a CDC run by the class clowns and bible thumpers. Gotta wonder how bad it is going to get, especially after we pegged ourselves to the top of the leader board in the last major pandemic.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A virus will come and cleanse the stupid

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It'll cleanse the poor and the vulnerable and the immuno-compromised.

But the headlines will read "Stupid"

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Yes, this is a case of the stupid causing horrific collateral damage

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I knew there were flaws

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

But I don't blame you. I think we're all hoping for some kind of dramatic course-correct at some point.

[–] finley@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago

I don't understand. At what point does Kennedy get convicted for mass murder?

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 6 points 6 days ago

Have the day you vaccinated for!

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I really really wish when the media talked about vaccines and diseases they'd stop using images of needles and start using images of people suffering from the diseases