Most counties don’t have their own health agencies, and some specific population groups have low vaccination rates

Pennsylvania is bracing for a wave of measles cases, with some public health officials concerned that it’s “only a matter of time” until the disease spreads beyond the outbreak’s epicenter.

Last week the state reported its fifth measles-associated death amid 943 confirmed cases across 39 counties. The outbreak comes amid concerns that public health in the US has been hit by increasing vaccine skepticism, especially due to the power and influence of controversial health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Contributing to the challenge is that Pennsylvania is one of the few US states where its counties mostly lack their own health department, with only seven of its 67 counties having their own.

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[–] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

"Some specific population groups have low vaccination rates." Oooo! I know which groups. I know!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    Amish and Mennonite populations have had a lot of vaccine hesitancy for a long time.

    Unfortunately, vaccines are a victim of their own success and people born into a situation in which certain diseases are virtually nonexistent because of those vaccines can craft or fall for a bullshit narrative about how it's always been like that, and the vaccines were not even necessary "because mah immune system". 🙄

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