As measles cases are surging in Texas, the state’s public health infrastructure is crumbling.
Medical communities in rural Texas, where the measles outbreak is centered, are struggling to meet the needs of patients. An aging infrastructure and a dearth of doctors do not bode well for…
Medical communities in rural Texas, where the measles outbreak is centered, are struggling to meet the needs of patients. An aging infrastructure and a dearth of doctors do not bode well for…
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Measles patients requiring hospitalization could find themselves in an isolation room featuring a broken window with a fan duct-taped to it.
Pediatricians are few and far between, and the vast majority of measles cases are…
There is a staggering lack of public health facilities to TEST for measles.
Rural West Texas communities and state officials are now scrambling to respond to the fast-growing measles epidemic — 198 confirmed cases quickly…
Sixty-four Texas counties don’t even have a hospital, and 25 lack primary care physicians. Since 2010, 26 hospitals in rural Texas have simply shut down, and those still standing are in a shocking state of disrepair, with few medical providers.
Texas has experienced this struggle…
As with COVID, measles is revealing how a lack of public health resources can leave rural communities dangerously vulnerable.
The Texas measles epidemic is expected to continue through most of 2025.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/10/rural-texas-measles-outbreak-response/
The Republicans are just greedy. The state has a $24B surplus - help rural communities!
Just wait till its 100° and the power grid collapses.
Cut backs, the closing of clinics/hospitals not making enough profit.
It's about to happen nationwide.
https://bsky.app/profile/nette8two.bsky.social/post/3lk3tlrajd223
With the exception of Booby, Texans have a choice. They must like how they are living or they'd change.
Thank god for my MMR booster.
(You can get Measles titers checked.)
I do agree with sentiment.
No one wants to see children suffer.
Abbott et al refused to expand Medicaid which resulted in all of this.
They knew.
Maybe some Vicks VapoRub under the feet as well?
Measles is VIRAL.
Antibiotics treat BACTERIAL infections for fuck's sake
It's like they put my uneducated old aunt in charge of the Health Department.
Voters should learn about those who 'supposedly' are there to serve them.
That is something of a trend in that libertarian dystopia, isn't it?
VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN!
Vaccines Protect Me From You-And Protect You From Me!
#Vaccination - is the Only Way to achieve 'Herd' or 'Community' Immunity!
GET VACCINATED!
Brag About Your Vaccinations!
Show Disdain for Anti-Vaxxers!
The Whole World Knows Better!
🇺🇸 🌍
And, Diocese of Austin in its complicit silence, continues to normalize him.
As do corporate media outlets.
Aren’t they are greatest stare in the union along w like Kentucky?
“…rural public health departments are having to contend with mixed messaging from the federal level as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, has cast vaccination as a personal choice while downplaying the news of the outbreak.”
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/committee-meets-to-send-school-choice-legislation-to-texas-house
Measles has an R value of >12. So:
1, 12, 144, 1728…
Goes fast, doesn’t it.
I have zero sympathy
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/26/texas-medicaid-unwinding-consequences/
Timely read that puts this the measles outbreak into perspective. This is how it came to this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/opinion/covid-public-health-privatization.html?unlocked_article_code=1.204.xD7c.aBxPv9_ryqId&smid=url-share
They need a reality check !!
Now R voters reject healthcare to avoid crossing political lines
Oh yeah, stupid is as stupid does.
I know I know. That was snide and unhelpful. But when every policy is hostile to practicing medicine, and state budgets refuse funding… what’s the draw?
Or is it just a coincidence that life- threatening diseases occur at the beginning of Trump's terms?
@brendanboyle
Arrest everyone of these neglectful parents.
He said to load up on vitamin A
Senate Republicans put a man you wants to stop all vaccination
and recommends cod-liver oil for measles as head of the US Health Department
Soon we will be smuggling vaccines in from Canada and Mexico
More kids have measles right now,
Than college trans athletes. Wow!
Of course Republicans focus on hate,
Not sick kids. Make America Great!
This should NOT be happening in 2025!!
It's their children who are the true victims in all of this. 😢
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/rosemary-kennedy-the-eldest-kennedy-daughter.htm
Any and all federal funding is being cut by DOGE as well…
Makes you sick, doesn’t it
Speaking of the word care,Trump: "What do I care?"
So excited to share in the consequences of your stupid decisions Texas! /s
He makes a bundle as a consultant for law firms. If he was Joe Smith not RFK Jr…
Share. Together we win.
#50501
@fifty.fifty.one
@indivisible.org
Especially women.
I know, it’s all about Freedumb!
COVID and flu outbreaks are filling up hospitals and clinics EVERYWHERE in the rural South, and other Trump-heavy areas.
Now that the election is over, MAGAs has two jobs:
Give up the rest of their wealth;
Then die.
they are going to cut Medicaid to really put the nail in the coffin.
Will these folks keep voting for them?
The poor babies getting measles. It break my heart. And the HCWers are going to be so traumatized they’ll probably leave/quit.
Too bad the kids have to pay for the shitty mistakes of their parents
Ps. All of the “dark ages” really, really sucked