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Katie Drumond: I understood. Aunt. We are in the middle of this hearth we were talking about at the top. What is happening now? Once the measles explode is there, it spreads to a community, how do you contain something like that? What kind of steps would it take to actually get the US to get this outbreak?

Emily Mulin: Yes. Well, that’s a great question. We’ve seen measles outbreaks before. You may remember that in 2019 there was a large measles outbreak, which was concentrated in orthodox Jewish communities in New York. Indeed, these strategic boots of the main efforts to enter the community, combating the misinformation, providing culturally sensitive information about the benefits of the MMR vaccine to achieve prices there. Because again there is no effective treatment for measles. This takes insulation, vaccination, because in order to be clear, we see these measles occur because of the decreasing vaccination rates across the country. People do not trust vaccines right now. For measles, the vaccination rate in a community must be very high, 95 percent to prevent outbreaks because it is so contagious. In Gaines County, Texas, which has a larger part of the cases at the moment, the percentage of kindergarten vaccination is 82 percent.

Katie Drumond: Aunt.

Emily Mulin: That is why we see such a severe concentration of cases there. But in New Mexico, in Lee County, where most cases of New Mexico occur, the degree of measles vaccination is much higher, about 94 percent. But again it is a very contagious virus. We really need these percentages up to about 95 percent. This is said that epidemiologists are really needed to protect a community.

Katie Drumond: Just to emphasize this for the last time. The MMR vaccine, how effective is this vaccine preventing measles in a person?

Emily Mulin: One dose of the vaccine is 93 percent effective against measles and two doses are 97 percent effective. This first dose is recommended for children, usually at the age of 12 to 15 months. Then this second dose is usually given when the child is between four and six years.

Katie Drumond: I understood. Also, again we are just talking about the most vulnerable people in the community, babies, young children, regarding the risk of measles negotiation. It certainly seems that vaccines are a better option than cod liver oil, if I can say it. We will take a short break. Thank you, Emily. When we get back, what you should read on Wired today. Welcome back to Uncanny valley. I am Katie Drumond, a global editor -in -chief of Wired. Join Emily Mulin to Wired. Now, Emily, before I let you go, I actually want to direct you and our listeners to a story that everyone should read on Wired.com today, other than the excellent stories we mentioned in this episode. This is a feature we have published today by Wired Lauren Smail. Lauren is an incredible journalist, an incredible writer of story. She made a deep diving in Boeing. If you are no longer terrified of airplanes, everything that is happening with FAA is happening and everything that has happened to Boeing over the last few years, this story will not make you feel better. I say that like someone who takes a lot of Xanax before I go into flight. This story will make you feel more nervous than the safety of the air trip. But it was this combined story, told through the eyes of a person who actually worked in Boeing for many years, there were many concerns about the safety in Boeing’s production facilities, the safety of the aircraft and often sounds the alarm inside the company. Until he eventually left the company and only then did he start seeing horrible plane crashes, serious Boeing aircraft incidents, which he was partly responsible for actual production and creation. Everything is about his journey as a whistle and how he left Boeing and becomes a whistle, he has actually become this focal point for the families of people who have lost their lives in Boeing’s plane crashes. It has become a focal point for other reports that came out with disabilities about what is happening inside the company. This is indeed the story of one person, his name is Ed Pearson, and his mission, which continues to this day, to reveal what he describes as serious misconceptions and misdeeds by Boeing, which affect all our safety when we enter an airplane. This is an incredible story. Again it won’t make you feel good, but it’s very, very good reading. I strongly recommend that everyone looks at it. Emily, I think you actually said you read this story early today, so I suspect you agree with me.