Mayor declares public health emergency following measles outbreak in Brooklyn's orthodox communities
Source: Brooklyn Paper
Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency at Brooklyn Public Librarys Williamsburg Branch Tuesday morning in response to the growing spread of the measles virus in Brooklyns Orthodox Jewish communities, where nearly 300 people have fallen ill with the potentially fatal disease since October.
We cannot allow this dangerous disease to make a comeback in New York City, said de Blasio. We have to stop it now.
The mayors emergency declaration mandates that residents of four Williamsburg zip codes 11205, 11206, 11211, and 11249 must seek vaccination, or face Department of Health violations and fines totaling as much as $1,000 per unvaccinated person.
The emergency declaration follows a previously announced Department of Health exclusion order barring unvaccinated children from attending schools and day cares within both Williamsburg and Borough Park, and demonstrates a shift in the citys focus to combating the disease in the northern Brooklyn neighborhood, where the majority of new measles cases have been discovered, according to de Blasio.
Read more: https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/42/15/all-emergency-measles-decleration-2019-04-12-bk.html
ck4829
(35,077 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)marybourg
(12,633 posts)previous ban on unvaccinated children attending school in nyc?
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)The judge decided that the local outbreak there did not rise to an 'emergency'.
marybourg
(12,633 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)marybourg
(12,633 posts)as public schools. But as noted above, it was not nyc, but upstate Rockland C.ounty
irisblue
(32,980 posts)Anti Vaxers are dangerous.
The Mouth
(3,150 posts)The Mouth
(3,150 posts)They can, and should, treat all anti-vaxxers exactly like this:
Get the kid shots, in a timeframe measured in minutes, or here's a van to take your new newly disenfranchised ass over the border to your choice of Canada or Mexico; no questions, no exemptions, no explanations.
I could not possibly care less about any cultural or religious objections or considerations.
sarisataka
(18,663 posts)Do Canada or Mexico get any say in receiving our disease ridden detritus?
The Mouth
(3,150 posts)just get them the hell out of ours.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)Sorry, I don't follow.
Thanks
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Enough!
packman
(16,296 posts)But separating religion from stupidity or stupidity from religion is a daunting and somewhat futile task.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)two orthodox Jews from Brooklyn. One was a woman who had not vaccinated her children, all of whom had contracted the measles. She said "My personal beliefs prohibit me from vaccinating." The other was an orthodox Rabbi, who said that the Torah doesn't speak at all about vaccination, so there was no rule against vaccinating children.
Perhaps the mother should have asked her Rabbi.