Doctors bear the burden as ‘medical freedom’ fuels worst US measles outbreak in 30 years
Nathan Heffington (left), medical director of Parkside Pediatrics in Spartanburg County, talks with his patients and their mother in Spartanburg, South Carolina, earlier this month. Reuters photo
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About a dozen times each day, medical staff at Parkside Pediatrics in Spartanburg, South Carolina, head to the clinic’s parking lot, reaching inside cars and minivans to check children and their parents for fever, rash and other signs of measles.
Dr. Justin Moll started this outdoor triage in December to cope with what has quickly become the largest U.S. measles outbreak in more than three decades, federal health data show. He wants to keep the highly contagious virus out of the clinic’s waiting rooms, already packed with infants and other small children. Many of them are unvaccinated against measles because they’re still too young.
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