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Katie Drummond: Have it. Wow. We are in the middle of this outbreak that we talked about above. What happens now? If a measles outbreak spreads into a community, how do you contain something like that? What next steps would be necessary for the United States to actually control this outbreak?

Emily Mullin: Yes. Well, that’s a great question. We have seen measles outbursts before. Perhaps they remember that in 2019 there was a major outbreak of measles that concentrated in the Orthodox Jewish communities in New York. These strategic boots really lasted because it fought into the community and fought misinformations and gives culturally sensitive information about the advantages of the MMR vaccine to record the installments there. Because again there is no effective treatment for measles. This requires isolation and vaccination because, in order to be clear, we see these measles nationwide due to falling vaccination rates. People are currently not trusting vaccines. In measles, the vaccination rate in a community must be very high, 95 percent to prevent outbursts because it is so contagious. In Gaines County, Texas, in which the majority of cases currently have, the vaccination rate for kindergarten masers is 82 percent.

Katie Drummond: Wow.

Emily Mullin: That is why we see such a strong concentration of cases there. But in New Mexico, in Lee County, where most of the New Mexico cases take place, the measles vaccine rates are around 94 percent rather higher. But this is also a very contagious virus. We really need these prices up to around 95 percent. This is what epidemiologists say that are really needed to protect a community.

Katie Drummond: Just to underline this one last time. The MMR vaccine, how effective is this vaccine to prevent measles in a specific person?

Emily Mullin: A dose of the vaccine is 93 percent effective against measles, and two doses are 97 percent effective. This first dose is usually recommended for children between the ages of 12 and 15 months. Then this second dose is usually given when a child is between four and six years old.

Katie Drummond: Have it. In addition, we only talk about the most endangered people in a community, babies, small children when it comes to the risk of measles. It certainly seems as if vaccines are a better option than CoD liver oil if I can say it. We will take a short break. Thanks, Emily. When we come back, you have to read WIRED today. Welcome back to Scaryy. I am Katie Drummond, Wired’s global editorial director. I am accompanied by WIRED’s Emily Mullin. Well, Emily, before I let you go, I would actually like to throw you and our listeners on a story that everyone should read on wired.com today, except for the excellent stories that we mentioned in this episode. This is a feature that we have published today from Lauren Smiley Lauren. Lauren is an incredible journalist, an incredible narrator. She made a deep dive in Boeing. If you are not yet afraid of air travel, if you have just happened with the FAA and everything that has been going on with Boeing in recent years, you won’t feel better. I say that as someone who takes a lot of Xanax before I get on a flight. With this story you feel more nervous about the safety of the flight. But it is this exciting narrative that was told with the eyes of a man who actually worked for many years at Boeing, had many concerns about security in Boeing production facilities, the security of the aircraft and often sounded the alarm within the company. Until he ultimately left the company and only then began to see terrible aircraft tortures, serious incidents with Boeing aircraft, which he was partly responsible for the actual production and creation. It is about his journey as a whistleblower and as he has had since leaving Boeing and a whistleblower, he has actually become this focus for families who have lost their lives in Boeing aircraft falls. He has become a focus for other whistleblower who have reported harmful information about what is going on in the company. It is really the story of a man, his name is Ed Pierson, and his mission, which is continued to this day to reveal what he describes as serious missteps and misdeeds from Boeing, who influence all of our security when we get on an airplane. It is an incredible story. You don’t feel good here either, but it is a very, very good reading. I strongly recommend everyone to see it. Emily, I think you actually said that you had read this story earlier today, so I suspect that you agree to me.