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Kentucky's 'too low and too slow' response to the nation's worst hepatitis A outbreak
Thinly staffed county health departments had seen their budgets shrink. And federal vaccine money for Kentucky had run out.
"There's a very good chance James would be alive" had the state done more earlier to educate and vaccinate people in Appalachia, said his sister, Brandy Stafford. "We are desperate for help in these counties. People are crying out.
"Does the state not think these people's lives are worth something?"
Kentucky racks up one-third of all hepatitis A deaths in US as fatalities keep rising
Hep A outbreak in Ky. nearing 4,000 cases with 40 deaths
Hepatitis A outbreak races across the country
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Republicans don’t want to talk about this because they don’t want to help these people. It’s a scandal that the media has totally ignored this terrible outbreak.
Appalachia and Kentucky are so poor that diseases that incubate there are starting to spread across the rest of the United States.
Thanks GOP, you did it to us again.
Thinly staffed county health departments had seen their budgets shrink. And federal vaccine money for Kentucky had run out.
"There's a very good chance James would be alive" had the state done more earlier to educate and vaccinate people in Appalachia, said his sister, Brandy Stafford. "We are desperate for help in these counties. People are crying out.
"Does the state not think these people's lives are worth something?"
Kentucky racks up one-third of all hepatitis A deaths in US as fatalities keep rising
Hep A outbreak in Ky. nearing 4,000 cases with 40 deaths
Hepatitis A outbreak races across the country
———
Republicans don’t want to talk about this because they don’t want to help these people. It’s a scandal that the media has totally ignored this terrible outbreak.
Appalachia and Kentucky are so poor that diseases that incubate there are starting to spread across the rest of the United States.
Thanks GOP, you did it to us again.