(28 Feb 2024)
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Fort Pierce, Florida - 27 February 2024
1. Various of Dr. Julia Retureta on the phone in emergency room
2. Dr. Retureta consulting with nurse
3. Child's drawing on wall
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Julia Retureta, HCA Florida Lawnwood hospital:
"So measles is a respiratory virus. It's very contagious. You don't even have to have contact with a person. You can just have it in a room and also, be, you know, be contracted. It starts off with fever and cough, conjunctivitis. There's an incubation period of a few days. Then there's the prodrome, which are the fever, and then you get the rash. So the rash usually is red, small little maculopapular rash, starts in the hairline, then goes to the face and kind of like spreads downward to the body and goes all over the body."
5. Various of medical supplies in drawer
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Julia Retureta, HCA Florida Lawnwood hospital:
"The complications of measles, you know, could be anything from pneumonia requiring respiratory ventilation, to diarrhea, death."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Julia Retureta, HCA Florida Lawnwood hospital:
"Obviously less than 12 months of age you worry more of complications. And, but adults can get it and elderly can get it if they've never been immunized or if their immunization already started to wear off because it's been too many years."
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ARCHIVE: West Palm Beach, Florida - 11 June 2020
8. Various of student's hand coloring
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Julia Retureta, HCA Florida Lawnwood hospital:
"But, there is conversations to be had. And I think an informed parent is the best parent. So you educate them, give them information and let them make the best decision for their child, which is hopefully to immunize them. This vaccine is not new."
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ARCHIVE: Vero Beach, Florida - 21 June 2021
10. Close of hand filling vaccine
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ARCHIVE: Miami - 4 February 2021
11. Close of vaccines being filled
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Julia Retureta, HCA Florida Lawnwood hospital:
"There's no need to be scared, but definitely just be aware and get vaccinated."
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STILL: Mount Vernon, Ohio - 17 May 2019
13. Vial of a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine
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STILL: Vashon Island, Washington - 15 May 2019
14. Dose of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine
STORYLINE:
Florida's controversial surgeon general is drawing criticism for his handling of an elementary school's measles outbreak, telling parents of unvaccinated children it is their choice whether their students attend class — a contravention of federal guidelines calling for their mandatory exclusion.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo, nationally known for his outspoken skepticism toward the COVID-19 vaccine, sent a letter this week to parents at Manatee Bay Elementary School near Fort Lauderdale after six students contracted the highly contagious and potentially deadly virus.
Such outbreaks are rare in the United States, though reported cases have spiked from 58 for all of 2023 to 35 already this year.
Dr. Julia Retureta of HCA Florida Lawnwood hospital in Fort Pierce says there are conversations to be had with parents about the vaccine.
Dr. Retureta also added that there is not a need to be scared, "definitely just be aware and get vaccinated.”
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