I'm very proud of their work, and I'm sharing the background just so people understand how serious even one case of measles is. The Infectious Disease Society of America says The median cost for a health department to respond to one case of measles is $32,000. So just multiply that by the 1454 cases this year. $46,464,000 already to respond to measles, which is at a rate that we haven't seen in a number of years. (03:25–03:31)
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