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Rockland County General Manager, Ed Day, addresses the media on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, at his New City, NY Day office announced the state of emergency that prohibits minors not vaccinated against measles in public areas of Rockland County. The measles outbreak has infected more than 150 people since the autumn of 2018 and Mr Day said he was acting in the hope of reversing a recent rise in the number of cases .
Peter Carr / AP
NEW CITY, NY – Some parents who had resisted the vaccination of their children reluctantly vaccinated them on Wednesday, as the state of emergency took effect in a county in the northern suburbs of New York City. New York.
Rockland County pbaded the emergency order Tuesday night to fight a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall. The order prohibits children under 18 years of age who have not been vaccinated to go to public places such as schools, shops and churches.
Loreen Costa told the Rockland Journal News that she had brought her son to his pediatrician for a vaccination Wednesday after receiving an automated call from his school explaining the ban. School districts contacted parents of unvaccinated children and told them not to attend clbades on Wednesday.
Lainie Goldstein of Grandview said that her son's high school principal had called her and that he could not go to school until he was vaccinated. She said that she had chosen not to vaccinate him because she did not "want to hurt him", but she took him to the pediatrician on Wednesday for injection.
"I feel badly treated for getting vaccinated," she told News News.
About 30 people were vaccinated against measles in a free county clinic on Wednesday.
"I think we have to do something very radical, that people have to comply and that we have to stop this," said Renee Kahan, a resident of Rockland, who stopped at the clinic for a reminder. "This epidemic is serious."
The emergency order, which lasts 30 days, was enacted because people were not cooperating with health officials who were working to stem the epidemic, said the lawyer. Rockland County, Thomas Humbach.
Humbach said the police would not arrest people and would not ask for a vaccination card. But if officials realize that an unvaccinated person has gone to a public place, law enforcement will involve them, he said. Offenders could be charged with an offense punishable by up to six months imprisonment.
Gary Siepser, CEO of the Jewish Federation and Rockland County Foundation, said the spread of the disease was linked to the anti-vaccine movement across the country.
"He found his way in social media and troubled parents and people about the importance of immunization," Siepser said. "And it turns out that there is a group in Rockland County that has adhered to that."
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