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   Hippy Steve (exador23@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 23:08:34 JST Hippy Steve

   YIKES!

   On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.

   By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock had unknowingly been exposed to the virus, considered one of the most contagious in the world.

   Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts — implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as three days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system fight off infections. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-hospital-newborn-babies-exposed-rcna196519

   #Measles

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     starkrg@myside-yourside.net's status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 23:08:32 JST StarkRG

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     @exador23 It can't be an emergency if it was an obvious outcome, then it's just blatant negligence. They're scrambling to implement blatant negligence procedures.

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     Hippy Steve (exador23@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 23:08:33 JST Hippy Steve

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     I'm really haunted by this bit, "Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts — implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as three days old injections of immunoglobulin..."

     You're a hospital. in the middle (both geographically and timewise) of a Measles outbreak. During an ongoing (yet mostly ignored) pandemic of a disease that can permanently disable people who get it. Both are known airborne diseases. And you have to scramble to implement an "emergency masking policy"

     WTF?!?

     mark repeated this.