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Measles outbreak "slowing," but newborn's family still can't meet her
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The earliest she can get a dose is six months, and with Utah back to standard guidance, more likely a year.
And they still can't introduce their daughter to the people who most want to meet her.
You can hear the grandparent's reply coming: those pediatricians are overreacting; when I was a kid, we all got measles.
When enough people are immune, a 6-week-old who can't be is covered anyway, for free, by the wall around her.
They're not that afraid of the virus itself, they told me; they're angry it's forcing the question at all.