For you youths, there used to be a regularly updated website called the Jenny McCarthy Body Count that kept a running total of the number of people killed and injured by the anti-vax nonsense she spewed in the early aughts. It still exists, but I have no idea if it is updated. Regardless, there is another corpse to add to her tally and more on the way:
A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States. The child had not been vaccinated against measles, according to the city of Lubbock’s health department.
The death, confirmed by Katherine Wells, the Lubbock health department’s director of public health, is part of a fast-moving outbreak that’s infected at least 124 people — mostly children — in rural West Texas.
The official tally of people who have been hospitalized is 18, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
That number isn’t up to date, said Dr. Lara Johnson, a pediatrician and the chief medical officer at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock.
Johnson said in an email that her team has cared for “around 20” kids with measles so far.
As with everything, this is going to get worse, both in this outbreak and in future ones.
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