Published 01 May 2018
On May 2, 2018, Mark Roberts, MD, MPP, spoke to House and Senate members and staff at the Texas State Capitol as part of the Immunization Policy Series sponsored by The Texas Pediatric Society in collaboration with The Immunization Partnership and the Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. Using FRED, Dr. Roberts demonstrated what a measles outbreak would look like in various Texas legislative districts and discussed:
- Vaccine preventable diseases making a comeback and why this is dangerous;
- How each district could be impacted;
- How does community immunity work and how constituents would fare in an outbreak.