Deidre McPhillips
speaker
5 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Deidre McPhillips’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
The biggest measles outbreak that happened in the years after the U.S. declared that measles was eliminated in the U.S. happened in 2019 in New York City.
There were almost 1,000 measles cases in a combination of Rockland County and New York City.
One thing that was happening in the communities was that there was a lot of misinformation about measles and also the vaccination. A lot of the work that was happening on the ground was to help parents understand that the measles vaccine is safe and also that measles isn't as benign as they were led to believe.
There was a lot of involvement from trusted messengers in the community. A nurse association of Orthodox Jewish nurses were involved in creating a pamphlet that they hung on every person's door in the neighborhood that helped explain that the vaccine was safe and what it did to help protect kids.
This is not a lesson that we learned in 2019. We've known for a while, but the vaccine really works. When measles was declared eliminated from the US in 2000, the average number of cases since then has only been about 180 cases per year. Before that, it was about 5,000. And we have all of this look back analysis at how much getting kids vaccinated really did help prevent the spread in New York.
Showing 1–5 of 5