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At the end of 2021, before taking work as CEO of the immunization partnership, Terry Burke’s first person called was Marsa Griffin. The question: What is the challenge of vaccination on the border, she asked? Marsha replied, “What challenge? I have never had vaccines against an immigrant parent. Many have seen these diseases. “
Three years later, Terry asked the public health directors across the border what their experience with immigrants and their vaccinations were. They replied that their biggest challenge is immigrants that arrange in their offices for shots that they do not always need. Like the march, they told me the parents of immigrant vaccinated their children because many of them saw these diseases.
Four years later, we see a measles outbreak in Lower Panhandell, in the southern plains. As we write this, there are 58 cases and 13 hospitalizations in Texas and eight cases in the neighboring New Mexico County. Public health staff predict that the numbers will reach the hundreds.
Four years since Burke first called his friend a pediatrician, the United States President has blocked entry from the United States from the southern border – the one between the US and Mexico – on the grounds that immigrants from the south are bringing disease into the United States. Not only is this not true, the diseases he quotes are preventable vaccines – and the secretary of the President of Human and Health Services discredit these many vaccines.
Here are the facts about immigrants – and let’s be clear, there is no evidence that the southern plains were once on the border or close to newly arrived immigrants. In addition, data collected from around the world show that since 2000, Guatemala reported one case; El Salvador, two cases; Mexico, 347; France, 108 400 cases; The United Kingdom and Ireland, 14,840 and the United States, 4 180. Since the degree of vaccination has decreased, the instances of measles have increased worldwide.
More than 100,000 people have died in measles in countries and regions with limited medical resources.
President demagogs brown people when the real threat to the disease comes from countries dominated by white people and people in our own country who refuse to vaccinate their own children.
It masks the real problem: it doesn’t matter where these diseases have occurred, if we regularly immunize our American children, on planned scientists and doctors who have determined that they are the most effective. This would not happen if the president’s own secretary and human services had not planted doubts about the safety of vaccines.
In our native Texas, we have essentially a non -medical release process needed without explanation. Parents just have to decide that they want to choose their child out of school, required vaccines and request a form from the State Department of Health Services. The State Health Department sends the Parents Form, they finish it, receive a notary and send it to their school area. When accepting the legislation more than 20 years ago, legislators intend to be a means for parents who want to make a choice. More than 118,000 children in school age have been
Released from one or more schools required, demonstrating that parents easily use the current process.
Still, Texas MPs would weaken even that, daring to say “liberal”, a process that facilitates parents who did not even think of vaccines to object.
Look only at the southern plains of Texas, so you know that our epidemic of the disease is rooted not in the border, but in a community with nearly 18 percent of a non -medical rate of release.
There is a cure for these outbreaks of diseases. These are not border blockades. This is a public education campaign to help parents understand the role of immunizations to preserve their families and communities.
Marsha Griffin, Doctor of Medicine, a retired professor of pediatrics at the Texas Medical University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and a founder of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Immigrant Health and Family Health, is the President of the Community for Children, Inc. Non -profit purpose created in favor of immigrant children and families. Terry Burke is CEO of the immunization partnership with 40 years as a leader in both journalism and non -profit organizations. The immunization partnership is leading to Texas efforts to restore the trust of the vaccine and improve the healthy public health policies.