Editorial: Florida shows how to bungle a measles outbreak

As life-saving as the COVID-19 vaccines have been, the measles vaccine has been an even greater success story. Before the vaccine was developed in 1963, outbreaks that occurred every two to three years were killing 2.6 million people worldwide a year, most of them children. Others developed pneumonia, or suffered brain injury and deafness from measles-associated encephalitis.

It’s an. Put a person with measles in a room with 100 other people and 90 of them will be infected. But the than the disease is transmissible. If all 100 people in that room were vaccinated, only four would be infected.