Dr. Paul Sax reacts to the first measles death in the United States since 2015 in
HIV and ID Observations.
A child in Texas has died of measles. Dr. Paul comments in the latest HIV and ID Observations: “And some of the responses to this case, including from the very person charged with running our Department of Health and Human Services, reveal significant weaknesses in understanding both the medical significance of the case, and, just as damningly, the human heart — how we feel when reading about a childhood death.”
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