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Idaho changed the law last year, making it illegal for school nurses or child care businesses to send home unvaccinated kids in the event of an outbreak, unless they show symptoms. Measles is uniquely good at getting around though; a person can spread it for up to 4 days before they show symptoms.

Measles has arrived in the Boise area. Five cases just reported in Canyon County, according to the state's weekly data. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

If you live in a community that has wastewater testing, you can also check here to see if measles might be circulating. (Wastewater isn't infallible, but neither is case report data. More data points = more information.) data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker/?cha...

WastewaterSCAN DashboardWastewaterSCAN Data Dashboard tracks infectious diseases across the US via wastewater surveillance.data.wastewaterscan.org

Wow. #measles

A thing I never imagined my child saying: "Alexa, play Skrillex."

Got this in my email this morning. If y'all see these videos on social media, please DM or tag me. I'm curious to see what people say.

I’m a journalist. I’m also an Idahoan. A couple weeks ago, I stood outside my child’s school, chatting with the school nurse. As we talked, my phone buzzed. It was a call from the person behind Idaho's new law — one that limits how a school nurse can respond if measles arrives.

My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist.The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, which makes it illegal to require almost anyone to take a vaccine, test or other “medical intervention,” comes amid a national measles outbreak larger than the U.S. has ...www.propublica.org

I'm going to stop using exclamation points for the next month and see what happens! It'll be a fun experiment (prank?) and may result in some misinterpretations of tone, but that's OK! Thanks!!! or maybe Sorry!!!

Exclamation marks! Why do women use them three times as much as men?It’s the punctuation that can make you seem warmer and more agreeable – but also much more compliant and lacking in analytical thinkingwww.theguardian.com

A tiny piece of this story, that I hope won't go unnoticed: "Starting in 2021, Idaho schools reported a steady drop in the share of kindergartners with documented vaccinations. Phone surveys of parents, by contrast, showed vaccination rates have been largely unchanged."

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...www.propublica.org

This law didn't happen in a vacuum. A poll released last week found: "Among all adults surveyed, 74% agree that parents should follow the CDC's child immunization schedules, down from 81% in March. The share who 'strongly agree' has fallen from 51% to 39% ..." according to @cidrap.bsky.social.

New poll reflects broad American distrust in health agencies and their advicewww.cidrap.umn.edu

The author of the law told ProPublica she believes infectious diseases have been made “the bogeyman.” She thinks measles can protect against cancer and put cancer into remission. (The sources she provided for this claim don't actually say that.)

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...www.propublica.org

Schools in South Carolina recently sent home unvaccinated kids, to stem a growing measles outbreak. Turns out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly infected their classmates for days. That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...www.propublica.org

it's not friday?! are you kidding me right now

a woman in a black and white polka dot shirt with the snl logoALT: a woman in a black and white polka dot shirt with the snl logomedia.tenor.com

"For the next five minutes, the woman listened as four men — a prosecutor, defense attorney, judge and police detective — debated what, exactly, Rogers meant by vagina." Hard to say what's the most shocking part of this @investigatewest.bsky.social series. But this courtroom dialogue is up there.