'Going to go much higher': Doctor slams anti-vaxxers amid Texas measles crisis
Dr. Jonathan Reiner on Monday warned that the measles outbreak currently hammering communities in Texas is only going to get worse in the coming weeks.
Appearing on CNN, Reiner was asked by host Manu Raju how concerned he was about the measles outbreak which is largely hitting unvaccinated communities.
He replied that he was extremely worried about what's to come.
"It's going to go much higher, Manu," he said. "It's completely related to anti-vaccine sentiment... Texas as a whole has a very liberal opt-out policy for vaccinating kids before school. And in Texas, in that county in Texas, 18 percent of kindergartners, their parents opted them out of of vaccination. So there is a huge opportunity for a very opportunistic virus like measles to infect kids."
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Reiner further emphasized that resistance to vaccinations was the primary reason that measles was ripping through communities.
"What's sad about this is that this is completely preventable," he said. "The vaccine is really spectacularly effective at preventing infection, it's about 98 percent effective at preventing infection. So every single person who's coming down now with measles in Texas is basically acquiring this disease because they have not been vaccinated."
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