Trump’s vaccine rhetoric sends chills through public health circles | The Hill

"I feel like we're on the edge of a precipice here … you have the most contagious of the vaccine preventable diseases coming back to some extent, and with Donald Trump basically casting aspersions on vaccines, that's only going to worsen." …

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4517350-trump-vaccine-rhetoric-public-health/

The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them

It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have robust data from the outbreaks in China and Italy, that shows the backside of the mortality curve declines slowly, with deaths persisting for months. Assuming we have just crested in deaths at 70k, it is possible that we lose another 70,000 people over the next 6 weeks as we come off that peak. That's what's going to happen with a lockdown.....
https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them

More than 2,000 people in ICE custody quarantined for contagious diseases - CNN Politics

More than 2,000 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement Custody are being quarantined amid an outbreak of mumps and other diseases. The numbers of immigrants in custody with a contagious diseases has spiked in the past year. For the previous two years, the agency has not encountered a single case of mumps among its detainees.....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/11/politics/ice-custody-disease-quarantine-health/index.html