That doesn’t even count the hundreds of doses administered in private doctors' offices and in pharmacies. 9/
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Meanwhile, the Orthodox Jewish traveler who brought measles to Michigan, "patient zero," was devastated. 10/https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/04/14/michigan-measles-outbreak-orthodox-jewish-community-oakland-county/3411582002/ …
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“'There is only one disease, and you have it,' McGraw recalled saying... 'He put his head down and was very emotional. I could tell from the look on his face that he was devastated. He was doing the math in his head,' counting all the people he had been in contact with..." 11/
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I also note that Hatzalah, the ultra-Orthodox community’s emergency medical response group, rapidly mobilized to track patient zero down. 12/
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Meanwhile, The Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit issued a statement strongly urging vaccination and that Jews showing signs of illness stay home and contact their doctors. 13/ http://cordetroit.com/news/5059/
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It's not just in Detroit, either. In Rockland County, Orthodox Jewish nurses are fighting the antivaccine misinformation. 14/http://gothamist.com/2019/03/26/orthodox_jewish_nurses_vaccines.php …
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Now,
@RichardDawkins should know that I'm a heathen too, or, as I like to describe myself, about as lapsed a Catholic as you can be. I'm not defending religion, particularly fundamentalist religion. I've been refuting religion-inspired antiscience since at least 2004. 15/1 reply 3 retweets 19 likesShow this thread -
I am, however, telling him that his hot take doesn't just fail to tell the whole story. It leaves out so much that it does a disservice to so many Orthodox Jews whose prompt and enthusiastic cooperation with authorities in Michigan limited the spread of the measles outbreak. 16/
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These Jews were motivated by their religion. So are the Orthodox Jewish nurses in Rockland County and Brooklyn on the ground fighting for the health of their communities. 17/
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In other words, the situation is far more complicated than
@RichardDawkins easy anti-religion sloganeering would lead you to believe. Unless we understand this, we can't make progress against his antivax misinformation spreads. 18/2 replies 6 retweets 30 likesShow this thread
Against HOW antivax misinformation spreads. I didn't mean to imply that Dawkins spreads antivax misinformation.
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Replying to @gorskon
If people cannot engage with individuals of science they feel demeaned and will reach out to a group that is easy to accept them, welcome them, and tell them how mean the "science types" are
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