At least eight people have been diagnosed with measles in an outbreak that started last month in the Philadelphia area. The most recent two cases were confirmed on Monday.
The outbreak began after a child who’d recently spent time in another country was admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) with an infection, which was subsequently identified as measles. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health considers the case to be “imported” but did not say from where.
The disease then spread to three other people at CHOP, two of whom were already hospitalized there for other reasons.
Two of those infected at the hospital were a parent and child. The child had not been vaccinated and the parent was offered medication usually given to unvaccinated people that can prevent infection after exposure to measles, but refused it, the Philadelphia Inquirer first reported.
Despite quarantine instructions, the child was sent to day care on Dec. 20 and 21, the health department said.
Isn’t this criminal negligence?
Being told by a medical professional to quarantine and wantonly ignoring it is a lot like your mechanic telling you not to drive a car and you doing it anyway.
I don’t see why the family shouldn’t be held to account for every single infection they started by sending their kid to day care.
Except who will arrest them? The cops won’t enforce mask or quarantine mandates. COVID fucked all that up.
Just say that the kid had a mental breakdown. The cops will come in pronto and shoot the dog.
They’ll bring about 10 to 20 more people if you say he has marijuana or mushrooms too!
If the government truly wants to enforce a quarantine, they can. Remember when the Ebola scare was a thing? I know someone who was caught up in that; They were required to do thrice daily temperature checks, and the CDC would randomly call a landline they set up, around ten times a day. On those calls, they had to report any potential symptoms for every single person in the household. The CDC made it very clear that if they didn’t answer the phone, the feds were coming inside with hazmat gear to verify they hadn’t snuck out. It was basically house arrest without the ankle monitors.
They had to have a very awkward conversation with their boss about it, because they were working as a lowly retail worker at the time. It was basically “hey uhh… You’ve seen the Ebola stuff in the news right? Yeah, I won’t be able to come in for a little while, because the feds say I’ll be arrested if I leave my house.”
Its tempting to rail against these parents but for the daycare part specifically let us not forget that people in America don’t get free healthcare, and we dont get paid sick days. You take your kid to daycare not because you fucking want to, your American boss doesn’t give a shit about your problems, he needs you in right now or you’re looking for another way to feed your kids
That’s a good point, I haven’t worked a jobs like that for a long time. It is easy to overlook.
Will the family of the child face any consequences? I’d be very angry if my son was infected and they knew all along. Like looking for revenge angry!
The part where the parent refused medication that can prevent infection is awful too. Can you imagine being so against medicine that you both risk your child’s life and risk leaving your child without a parent?
At the very least CPS better be involved. I would definitely hope they take your child away if you’d risk your health, the child’s health, and the health of other children like that.
Well they are now know as the unhygienic dirty family with the smelly kid.
The disease then spread to three other people at CHOP, two of whom were already hospitalized there for other reasons.
Two of those infected at the hospital were a parent and child. The child had not been vaccinated and the parent was offered medication usually given to unvaccinated people that can prevent infection after exposure to measles, but refused it, the Philadelphia Inquirer first reported.
Despite quarantine instructions, the child was sent to day care on Dec. 20 and 21, the health department said.v
It’s shocking how far backwards we’ve gone with respect to basic science… When I was a kid, vaccines were a given. Nobody ever batted an eye.
Fuck Andrew Wakefield.
Sending a child with a highly infectious disease that is as dangerous and potentially deadly as measles into a day care should be held accountable. This is reckless endangerment of other peoples’ lives.
Agreed. It would be nice if people weren’t so pressured to go to work for money that they could take care of children rather than feeling like you need to abandon them for a job. I’m not saying they did this. But over 3/4 of my sick days last year was to take of my kid. And when I had COVID, I was out and the statutes to pay me were gone.
Poor Americans. I just can’t imagine having to deal with limited sick days. If I’m sick for more than six weeks in a row, I get a little less money, and then from my health insurance instead of my boss, but that’s the only limit that is.
I wish! But Merica
This is why it’s very important to think fiscally when deciding to have a baby. Those things are damn pricy!
People just don’t care about others anymore.
Nah, these selfish assholes have always been there. They’re just more visible with cameras and phones everywhere, and outrage-based news seeks these kinds of stories out.
We didn’t used to have measles popping up like this. This is a new phenomenon as of a couple years ago.
Yes, Trump emboldened them, but the point is they were always there and always self-centered assholes.
They just used to do the shittalking behind peoples’ backs.
Some people do. In fact, lots do.
Can we deport these deplorables yet? They’re uncivilized and a burden on the tax payer funded system.
Deport to where? Who would even take them?
The sun
Hahahahah The gulf coast?!?!
Who do these people work for? Their sick day policies bear a lot of the blame.
I know this isn’t the point, but I’ll never get over that something as big and expensive as world class hospital could be built and they named it “chop”. No one said anything?
Ahh acronyms. Can they put a Hasaaaaaaan in front?
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Yeah it sucks the family ignored the quarantine orders, I agree. Maybe they should be held liable for that.
What concerns me more, and what we should be talking about, is that the kid shows up at the hospital and two other patients contact the disease. At the hospital.
Being at a hospital should not be a threat to ones health. This along with other hospital borne illness and the insane amount of preventable deaths from medical negligence should concern all of us.
Measles is incredibly infectious, it’s why we eradicated it in the first place. Plus there are rules to follow in a hospital waiting room specifically designed to avoid that.
But it relies on people actually following rules, and we can assume someone that didn’t vaccinate or follow quarantine procedure is not a big fan of following “meaningless” rules. And meaningless to them is any rule they don’t understand. Unfortunately they actively try to understand as little as possible so no one can accuse them of being the very scariest word to them right now, “woke”.
The most infectious we’ve encountered and recorded.
Waiting rooms are the worst. I’m so glad we finally have the technology to allow us to check in from home and completely avoid waiting rooms.
It sounds like it wasn’t obvious the first child had measles when they were admitted. The initial symptoms don’t include the rash. Measles is uncommon here, and it’s ludicrously infectious, well above flu or most other similar-appearing diseases.
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/symptoms/signs-symptoms.html
It also sounds like, as soon as they realized, the hospital tried to prevent the spread by giving medication to those exposed. This parent refused it.
There’s a lot that could be better about my home country, such as the weather, but I am thankful for mandatory vaccinations. I know many of my stupid relatives who wouldn’t have gotten their vaccine if it wasn’t mandated.
Some things shouldn’t be left to the “wisdom of the masses”.
Good thing all parents vaccinate their kids. We’re fine.
