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On 2/26/2025 at 10:20 PM, dcbc said:

Roll into Walgreens and get the shot.  1st shot has 93% efficacy.  Second shot gets you to 97% 28 days later.  No time like the present.

 

/edit to add: make an appointment online to make it as short of an experience as possible.

If you just want to check your immunity, any drug store with a "minute clinic" can draw your blood and order a titer.  That'll tell you if your previous vaccine is still good.

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On 2/27/2025 at 10:39 AM, Parliament said:

Can any walk-in clinic do that?

 

Yes, most of them can.  It may get "sent off" but in Austin that will likely be CPL, which is in town.  Quest/Labcorp send to Dallas, so you're looking at a 1 day TAT max.  I think with insurance it was less than $10.  Do it.

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12 minutes ago, tigol said:

Yes, most of them can.  It may get "sent off" but in Austin that will likely be CPL, which is in town.  Quest/Labcorp send to Dallas, so you're looking at a 1 day TAT max.  I think with insurance it was less than $10.  Do it.

When I get my semi-annual blood test I’ll add it to the list.

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4 hours ago, Newdoc said:

Imported case in infant, not part of the panhandle debacle and rest of family vaxxed.

Infant is supposedly at the UT Child Development Center.

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So how much of this is normal annual stuff that we are just being hyper aware of?  
 

I think there are a handful of bubonic plague cases every year that warrant little coverage because it’s treatable now.  And for some reason, people tend to accept treatments without questioning safety profiles- so far. 

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Heard immunity is a weird thing. For measles, greater than 95% vaccination in a society is pretty much like eradicating the disease. Drop below 90, and you’re pretty much fucked. Guess which way we are headed?

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20 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

So how much of this is normal annual stuff that we are just being hyper aware of? 

When was the last time you heard an official having to warn against measles parties, because that is what the health officials were talking about in Lubbock last week.

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20 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Heard immunity is a weird thing. For measles, greater than 95% vaccination in a society is pretty much like eradicating the disease. Drop below 90, and you’re pretty much fucked. Guess which way we are headed?

Texas failed state thread has a link from a news station showing all school districts and private or charter schools in Texas with vax rates for MMR - from 14% to 100% and easily 75-80% are below 95%. It’s total fucking bullshit. 

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20 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Heard immunity is a weird thing. For measles, greater than 95% vaccination in a society is pretty much like eradicating the disease. Drop below 90, and you’re pretty much fucked. Guess which way we are headed?

Say again?

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8 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

When was the last time you heard an official having to warn against measles parties, because that is what the health officials were talking about in Lubbock last week.

Well, they're used to sharing diseases in Lubbock. It's kinda their thing.

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State is getting really fucking serious about vaccines now that a kid has died.  And we all know that the 158 confirmed cases is way below what is probably the actual number.

Texas measles outbreak: 158 cases as of Monday, state health commissioner talks vaccine concerns

The measles outbreak continues to spread in Texas as the state’s Commissioner of the Department of State Health Services spoke to a committee of lawmakers about the growing distrust of vaccines and the agency’s attempts to fight the virus.

The case count is now up to 158 people, according to the latest numbers reported by Dr. Jennifer Shuford, the DSHS Commissioner. She presented those numbers to the Texas House Committee on Public Health as the state faces a measles outbreak it has not seen in 30 years.

“Measles is highly contagious,” Dr. Shuford explained. “It’s probably the most contagious virus that we know of.” She said school-age children between the ages of 5 and 17 are the most impacted group followed by children under the age of four.

One school-aged child died and 20 people have been hospitalized, due to this outbreak, according to Dr. Shuford. A majority of the confirmed cases are located in Gaines County and spreading to the surrounding counties in the South Plains and Panhandle region.

Dr. Shuford said the state set up two specimen collection sites in the most impacted area to help increase the speed of testing for the virus. Most of the testing is being done at a lab in Austin, but DSHS is working with El Paso, Tarrant, and Bexar counties to boost their measles testing capacity at their public health labs.

The state has also set up vaccine sites that operate 7-days a week. “We just want to have vaccine available for whichever providers can give those vaccines, especially in that outbreak community,” Dr. Shuford said.

If someone is exposed to the virus the state is trying to get that person a vaccine within 72 hours of exposure. It may prevent that person from being sick or make their symptoms less severe. If the state misses that 72-hour window it is also providing immunoglobulin injections, which is a treatment that puts antibodies in the body to strengthen the immune system.

The agency is also looking at pediatric hospital bed capacity. Part of that is communicating with hospitals around the states to get a look at the available hospital beds, including pediatric ICU beds in the state. Most of the infected people are being hospitalized in Lubbock, and the state is making sure there are beds available in case Lubbock becomes overwhelmed.

Dr. Shuford reported the state expects the cases to keep growing because of the lack of measles vaccination rates in Texas. The state says the best defense against measles is the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine which has been in use in the United States for more than 50 years.

“We are concerned about our MMR coverage across our state, knowing that it’s lower than some other places across the United States, and that this particular region has lower vaccination rates,” Dr. Shuford said.

State Rep. John Bucy III, D-Austin asked the commissioner why vaccination rates are so low in some areas of Texas. “What’s going on, especially if we’ve eliminated this disease in 2000,” Bucy asked.

“There has been just some decreased interest or distrust in vaccines, and that’s caused a decrease in vaccination rates,” Dr. Shuford explained. It is part of a growing debate in the country about whether people should vaccinate. The question of whether or not someone should vaccinate themselves has become a political talking point.

“If someone chooses not to get the vaccine, not because of health reasons, but they choose not to get it living in a denser population or community, they’re not just impacting their own safety. They could be impacting the safety of their neighbors and their communities, correct,” Bucy asked.

“They’re allowing it to be able to spread to other people,” Dr. Shuford responded.

 

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And the Department of State Health Services is headed up by somebody who is actually knowledgeable in this stuff:

Dr. Shuford worked in Austin, Texas, as an infectious disease physician in private practice prior to joining Texas Department of State Health Services in 2017. Before becoming Commissioner, Dr. Shuford served DSHS as the Chief State Epidemiologist.

Dr. Shuford graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. She completed an internal medicine residency at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, where she served as chief resident. She completed an infectious disease fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and earned her Master of Public Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Shuford serves on the faculty of the DSHS Preventive Medicine and Public Health Residency Program. She is a member of Travis County Medical Society, Texas Medical Association, and Infectious Disease Society of America.

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

And the Department of State Health Services is headed up by somebody who is actually knowledgeable in this stuff:

Dr. Shuford worked in Austin, Texas, as an infectious disease physician in private practice prior to joining Texas Department of State Health Services in 2017. Before becoming Commissioner, Dr. Shuford served DSHS as the Chief State Epidemiologist.

Dr. Shuford graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. She completed an internal medicine residency at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, where she served as chief resident. She completed an infectious disease fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and earned her Master of Public Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Shuford serves on the faculty of the DSHS Preventive Medicine and Public Health Residency Program. She is a member of Travis County Medical Society, Texas Medical Association, and Infectious Disease Society of America.

I'm sure Abbott and Paxton and furiously trying to have him removed.

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4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Dr. Shuford worked in Austin, Texas, as an infectious disease physician in private practice prior to joining Texas Department of State Health Services in 2017. Before becoming Commissioner, Dr. Shuford served DSHS as the Chief State Epidemiologist.

Dr. Shuford graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. She completed an internal medicine residency at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, where she served as chief resident. She completed an infectious disease fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and earned her Master of Public Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Shuford serves on the faculty of the DSHS Preventive Medicine and Public Health Residency Program. She is a member of Travis County Medical Society, Texas Medical Association, and Infectious Disease Society of America.

That's a whole lotta words to say she's Woke, and she's gotta go.

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Posted
34 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Official news updates are Tuesday/Friday and with today's update it is now 159. Actually somewhat relieved it wasn't growing by double digits.

Yeah, about that:

The dimensions of the outbreak, which has already killed one child, are unclear. The official case number in the Texas outbreak is most likely an undercount, said Katherine Wells, the director of public health in Lubbock, Texas.

The outbreak has largely spread within a community of Mennonites in Gaines County, who historically have had lower vaccination rates and often avoid interacting with the health care system.

Ms. Wells said she believed many of those families did not seek medical attention for measles and have not been accounted for in the state’s official numbers.

“I think it’s probably in the hundreds,” she said. “We know that some of their schools were closed with lots of sick children, but we don’t know who those children were.”

Full article: https://archive.is/Zwb3H

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13 hours ago, bolverk said:

Yeah, about that:

Oh, believe me I understand your point and chasing numbers during an outbreak in order to quell spread is frustrating to all, especially with the misinformation being promoted through various means. However, and this is just my opinion, I find that reasonable citizens are more likely to seek medical help if they suspect it is measles and thus those stats would be reported. It does nothing to address the spread itself, nor address those like the herbal tonic MLM mom and the numbers may climb again since measles is so highly contagious but it was still somewhat encouraging to see the count not racketing up across the state.

It will only take one infection to cause trauma in someone's family, but health officials on the scene appear to be trying their best.

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3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

BREAKING NEWS ::::: a major San Antonio hospital has it's first measles patient 

Don't you mean "it has its first case of freedom freckles?"  The symptoms are how you can tell the freedom is working.

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Just in time for Spring Break....

Florida high school student in the Miami-Dade area has measles in the state's first reported case of 2025. The state's vaccination rate among school age children ranges to pretty high to not so great. Their state surgeon general is the official who during an outbreak last year among elementary school students said that parents could decide whether to send their children to school or not (regardless of vaccination status).

 

Flori-duh.

 

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51 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Just in time for Spring Break....

Florida high school student in the Miami-Dade area has measles in the state's first reported case of 2025. The state's vaccination rate among school age children ranges to pretty high to not so great. Their state surgeon general is the official who during an outbreak last year among elementary school students said that parents could decide whether to send their children to school or not (regardless of vaccination status).

 

Flori-duh.

 

Flo Rida….

open up the champagne!! 
 

 

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Posted
3 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

Not sure where this dumbass goes: North Texas pastor cheers on families at school with lowest vaccinations rates

https://www.chron.com/news/article/texas-pastor-lowest-vaccination-rates-20207332.php

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Mercy Culture Preparatory, a private school, has a vaccination rate of just 14.29 percent, according to data from the Texas Department of State Health Services. 

Gonna affect enrollment when a buncha kids die.  Dead children don’t pay tuition.

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But muh freedom 

I didn’t see that number in the article, because I didn’t read the whole thing, because it’s a beating to work through all the adds stuck in the middle. 

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4 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

But muh freedom

This country's concept of "freedom" is the most broken-brained bullshit imaginable.  We've completely lost any line between "can" and "should."  Instead, we've turned "can" into "must" as a purity test.

Someone in authority recommends that I do not hammer a nail through my dick.  "Oh yeah?  Well, I got the freedom to nail a hammer through my dick if I wanna!"  BANG BANG BANG [resulting in bleeding dick with nail through it].  "See there?  I done showed YOU!"

Toddler-level oppositional defiance order is our national ethos.  And it's every bit as stupid and harmful as you'd expect it to be.

Also, on the pastor level....I do find it fascinating that on the one hand, these types scream from the pulpit about their flock's "FREEDOM!  WE AIN'T GONNA DO WHAT THE GUBMINT TELLS US TO DO!"....as they simultaneously pour all of their effort and money into turning our government....into a Christian Theocracy, where everyone will...."HAFTA DO WHAT THE RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT OF THE LORD TELLS 'EM TO DO!"

Dumbest.  Fucking.  Timeline.

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3 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

Not sure where this dumbass goes: North Texas pastor cheers on families at school with lowest vaccinations rates

https://www.chron.com/news/article/texas-pastor-lowest-vaccination-rates-20207332.php

This is where I think Doctors and Medical facilities should be able to refuse service to this dipshits. "Sorry, you didn't trust us, go home and die."

Because, you know all these fuckers think "If it gets really bad, I can go to the emergency room."

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16 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

198 cases. Well, that is not a good sign. Tuesday was 159. Most are still in Gaines County, which is a plus.

 

When do we quarantine the county? Nope, sorry, you cannot go to the wal mart in the next town.

 

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17 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

198 cases. Well, that is not a good sign. Tuesday was 159. Most are still in Gaines County, which is a plus.

 

Glad to see it remains confined to those same counties. I doubt that holds up, but since I live in one of the neighboring counties, the longer it takes to get here, the better (maybe?).

Dallam    5
Dawson    9
Ector    2
Gaines    137
Lubbock    3
Lynn    2
Martin    3
Terry    29
Yoakum    8
Total    198

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