Oh look: South Dakota's #2... in measles! Asterisk our #2: four of the cases mapped around Mitchell are folks from other states inflating our numbers. I heard Senator Rand Paul on NPR yesterday saying he's not against vaccinations but that…
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Let me give credit where credit is due. Governor Dennis Daugaard has dedicated his first column of the new year to telling the anti-vaccine crowd that the resurgence of measles is their fault, that they are wrong on science and…
Last summer, Governor Dennis Daugaard expressed concern that the 21 vaccinated and screened child refugees placed in South Dakota posed a health risk to our fair state. Governor Daugaard should have been more concerned about the health risk posed by…
We all fled here from somewhere. According to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the federal government placed 30,340 immigrant children who entered the United States without adult companions with sponsors around the country between January 1 and July 7 of…
Now I know why Birchy conservatives really hate the Affordable Care Act: it requires insurance companies to cover vaccines! "Payment has always been a big barrier to making sure children are properly protected against those preventable diseases," Sanford Clinic Chief…
I hear far too many of my conservative friends falling for the anti-vaccine fad. Don't be stupid: vaccines are not some insidious child-killing plot. Vaccines are, in the words of one molecular biologist working on a vaccine for malaria, "the…