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Newborn babies have been exposed to measles at a Texas hospital and are receiving antibodies to protect them, NBC reports. The virus was brought into the University Medical Center Children's Hospital by a mother in labor — doctors didn't realize until after her admission that she was infected, and it's unclear when she tested positive. The immunoglobulin injections have been given to babies as young as three days old. A 2021 study found this therapy is highly effective in protecting exposed newborns who are too young to be vaccinated. Emergency masking procedures have also been implemented.
@Incognitim @ScienceDesk This response 
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@ScienceDesk oh so I guess we now know just how bad it needs to get before Texan doctors suddenly remember that masks STOP MEASLES TRANSMISSION
@ScienceDesk Hopefully, the infected adults will be billed for the cost of the newborn treatments. Because it’s not like they haven’t been told.
@ScienceDesk If she was willingly anti-vaxx, sue her for attempted homicide.
@WhiteCatTamer @ScienceDesk If it were only that simple. Imagine that she’s anti vaxx, but made that decision because her family and her church and the news media and the podcasts she listened to and the social media influencers and the current head of the US Department of Health and Human Services and the President of the United States fed her a continuous stream of lies that led her to believe it was the right thing to do.
There’s a lot of blame and complicity to go around.
@tx_tartan @ScienceDesk So apply that to sentencing.
@ScienceDesk "Emergency masking" is like "emergency toothbrushing". Sure, it's better than nothing, but if you had been doing it routinely then you probably wouldn't be in this mess.
@ScienceDesk The fact that those infants were exposed just for being inch a hospital from a mother who should have been checked (and ideally should be vaccinated) really should flip their mothers' lids!
I hope someone sat that moron down and explained to her that her willful ignorance endangered other mothers’ newborn babies.
Аssholes like her never accept responsibility for their own actions, so she’d surely respond by insisting on her own utter blamelessness. But she should hear it from someone.
@ScienceDesk gotta love how masking - simple, cheap, and effective - is considered as a last resort after all else fails
I'm so sick of this antivax bullshit.
Firstly, and most importantly, you cannot get autism from vaccines.
Secondly, EVEN if you could get autism from vaccines... You can live with autism. You can't live with stupid. It's literally lethal.
Morons.