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The S.C. measles outbreak spreads as vaccine exemptions rise : NPR

The S.C. measles outbreak spreads as vaccine exemptions rise : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

South Carolina has reported 558 cases of measles in an outbreak that is continuing to spread quickly. Ken Ruinard/USA Today Network via Reuters hide caption toggle caption Ken Ruinard/USA Today Network via Reuters South Carolina on Friday reported 124 new measles cases in the last three days, bringing the total number to 558 in the state’s fast-growing outbreak. Cases have nearly doubled in the last week alone. “We have right now the largest outbreak in the U.S., and it’s going to get worse before it gets better,” Dr. Helmut Albrecht, an infectious disease physician with Prisma Health and the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, said in a briefing Friday. Hundreds of people in other parts of the state are already in quarantine or isolation, he said. The epicenter is in Spartanburg County, in the northwest part of the state. The area has also seen a jump in students with nonmedical exemptions to required school vaccines since the pandemic. New research published this week in the journal JAMA finds these exemptions are growing in …

RFK Jr. Alleges Germany Targeting Doctors For Legitimate Vaccine, Mask Exemptions

RFK Jr. Alleges Germany Targeting Doctors For Legitimate Vaccine, Mask Exemptions

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling on Germany to end what he described as unjust prosecutions of German doctors for granting patients exemptions from mask and vaccine requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I’ve learned that more than a thousand German physicians and thousands of their patients now face prosecution and punishment for issuing exemptions from wearing their masks or getting COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic,” Kennedy said in a video on X on Jan. 11. “When any government criminalizes doctors for advising their patients, it crosses a line that free societies have always treated as sacred.” Kennedy said he sent a letter to Nina Warken, his German counterpart. “In my letter, I made it clear that Germany has the opportunity and the responsibility to correct this trajectory, to restore medical autonomy, to end politically motivated prosecutions, and to uphold the rights that anchor every democratic nation,” he said. Warken said in a statement that no doctors have been prosecuted for the reasons Kennedy outlined. “Criminal …