Katie Drummond: Got it. Wow. We’re in the midst of this outbreak that we talked about at the top. What happens now? Once a measles outbreak is out there, is spreading among a community, how do you contain something like that? What next steps would be necessary for the United States to actually get this outbreak under control?
Emily Mullin: Yeah. Well, this is a great question. We have seen measles outbreaks before. You might remember that there was a large outbreak of measles back in 2019 that was concentrated in the Orthodox Jewish communities in New York. It really took this strategic boots on the ground effort of going into the community, combating misinformation, providing culturally sensitive information about the benefits of the MMR vaccine to get rates up there. Because again, there’s no effective treatment for measles. This takes isolation, vaccination because to be clear,…
