In other news...
- Please get your kids their basic vaccines! Currently our hospitals are on high alert for measles and I can't believe some parents won't get their kids tried-and-true vaccines that have been around for ages and prevent their kids from getting debilitating--sometimes deadly--yet easily preventable diseases!
- We are also gearing up for the FIFA World Cup which will take place around the US this summer. It takes a metric crapton of work to get the emergency medical side prepared for such an event but one place I won't be this summer is at these events--mainly because I don't like crowds AND the tickets can run into the tens of thousands of dollars for ONE game. That's insane!
- Here is a good preparedness checklist for your important documents.
- My "you gotta be kidding" list...apparently it is a thing that kids aren't being potty trained prior to kindergarten??? "Personal pricing" sounds like AI evil at its peak. And I can think of nothing worse than being trapped on a cruise ships when a deadly virus outbreak happens...that's like the plot of a horror movie!
I'm hoping for a safe and wonderful summer for you all!
Measles deaths in the U.S. fell dramatically from roughly 13,000/year circa 1900 to only a few hundred/year by the 1950s–early 1960s—well before the 1963 vaccine—reflecting improvements in nutrition, healthcare, and living conditions rather than vaccination.
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1920: ~3,000–4,000 deaths.
1930: ~1,000–2,000 deaths.
1940: ~1,000 deaths (order of magnitude ~1k).
1950: ~400–500 deaths.
1955: ~400 deaths (mid‑1950s annual deaths ~300–500).
1960: ~400 deaths (around this decade the annual deaths remained in the low hundreds).
1962: ~382 deaths (specific annual counts in the early 1960s were in the high‑hundreds to low‑hundreds).