Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be 'cost of doing business'

[lostincalifornia]

With measles transmission in the United States at levels that haven’t been seen in decades, the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that he would not view the loss of the country’s measles elimination status as a significant event.

“Not really,” said Ralph Abraham, a physician who formerly served as Louisiana’s surgeon general. “You know, it’s just the cost of doing business, with our borders being somewhat porous [and] global and international travel.”

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Abraham, who began his tenure at the CDC earlier this month, said that while the agency is helping states quell outbreaks however it can, some transmission is happening within communities where parents have chosen not to vaccinate their children and “that’s their personal freedom.”

“You know, the president, the [health] secretary, we talk all the time about religious freedom, health freedom, personal freedom, and I think we have to respect those communities that choose to go somewhat of a different route,” Abraham said during a press conference called to discuss the ongoing measles outbreaks.

https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/cdc-measles-briefing-lost-elimination-status-cost-of-doing-business/

Our country is being run by unhinged and unstable people, and much of the media portrays this as "normal"

There is no public health in this country anymore, it is being run by conspiracy nuts.

[Irish_Dem]

1. The freedom to kill each other. Wonderful.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The Founding Fathers fled religious oppression

for tolerance and the science as it existed in the Enlightenment. Now we're being oppressed by one dominant religious point of view. Full circle.

[SamKnause]

3. Fuck you.

Fuck all of you.

You are destroying this country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!