Bay Measles Shot Rates Top State Average
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RADIO PLAYING TRUMP SPEECHES DAILY LOCAL | A3 PANAMA CITY LOCAL & STATE | A3 ARNOLD, RUTHERFORD CLASSES GIVING BACK Thursday, May 16, 2019 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ Tears of despair Bay measles shot rates top now tears of joy state average By Patrick McCreless High numbers [email protected] @PCNHPatrickM According to state offi - cials, kindergartners in Bay PANAMA CITY — More County public schools had Bay County children are a vaccination rate of about vaccinated for measles 96%, higher than the state than the state average, average of 94% for the same meaning better protection age group. For seventh-grad- for the area as the disease ers, the county vaccination continues to spread across rate was about 98%, higher the U.S. than the 97% state average. Florida Department of Health statistics show that as of December, county kindergartners and sev- enth graders — the two vaccination rate was about groups of public school 98%, again higher than the children that are vacci- 97% state average. nated in Florida annually No case of measles has — each had higher vac- been reported in the county cination rates for measles this year. than the state average. The Jennifer Roberts, infec- high rates are comforting tion control manager at to area health experts, but Gulf Coast Regional Med- “It’s all mine!” 4-year-old Corey Armstead shouted while jumping onto his new bed on Tuesday. A as measles, once eradicated ical Center, said Florida Churches of Christ Disaster Response Team helped rebuild his family’s home after it was damaged by in the country, continues already has a relatively high Hurricane Michael. [PHOTOS BY PATTI BLAKE/THE NEWS HERALD] to spread, preparations vaccination rate among are underway in case the students compared to other highly infectious disease states and was pleased to pops up in the county, they know the county’s rate was Nonprofi t rebuilds Panama City family’s said. even higher. According to the state “The No. 1 way to prevent health department, kinder- measles is to vaccinate,” home destroyed by Hurricane Michael gartners in county public Roberts said. “We’re lucky schools had an approxi- we do require vaccinations mately 96% vaccination to attend public school here By Will Glover rate, higher than the state in the state.” The News Herald | 850-747-5070 average of 94% for the State health department [email protected] | @PCNHwill same age group. For sev- enth graders, the county See MEASLES, A11 PANAMA CITY — Like many Panhandle families, Laura and Terrence Pickett rode out historic Hurricane SPORTS | B1 Michael in their home. When the winds had CHIPOLA subsided, they had almost nothing left. WINS THIRD “First off, the first part of the porch came off,” Ter- STRAIGHT rence Pickett said, recalling the night of the hurricane’s STATE TITLE landfall. “The whole house was rockin’. I was trying my best to stay calm and assure my kids … everything was going to be all right.” But, he admitted, he wasn’t so sure when the insulation Help coming on started flying around and the roof came off. A religious nonprofit from blocking scam calls Ohio wanted to change that. The Churches of Christ Disaster Response Team By Tali Arbel other companies to help (COCDRT) sends volunteers The Associated Press them weed out most to disaster-hit regions like the unwanted calls. Florida Panhandle. Terrence NEW YORK — New mea- The rising volume of Pickett said his wife, Brenda, sures by U.S. regulators calls in the last few years, signed up for help at a Bay could help thwart some driven by how cheap and County church after seeing a Brenda Pickett holds her daughter, Iyahna, while the two cry from of the billions of robocalls easy it is for scammers to story about the organization the excitement of walking into their new North Cove Boulevard received in the U.S. call millions of people as on the news. home on Tuesday. The Federal Communi- well as weak enforcement, He found — or, rather, his cations Commission said has created pressure on wife found — COCDRT after getting ready for school,” crowded hotel room on the Wednesday that it will Congress, regulators and contractors told him his dam- Terrence Pickett said, and Beach. vote in June on whether to phone companies to act. aged home “wasn’t up to one of the local TV stations “I like the Beach; it was let wireless carriers block The volume of calls has par,” he said had a story about the Palo fine, but there’s nothing like spam calls by default, risen to roughly 5 billion Once they realized the Alto Church of Christ and your own house,” he said. which should mean that per month, according to limits of FEMA, he reached the Church of Christ organi- “We lived like cave people more spam calls are call-blocker YouMail, out to his father in Missis- zation. By that time, he was for a while.” blocked. Right now, cus- from 2.7 billion in Novem- sippi, but the pricing was staying on the Beach with That’s when the COCDRT tomers have to take the ber 2017. That’s when the much higher than they could his brother’s family after stepped in to help. extra step of requesting government gave carriers afford. living with multiple relatives tools from their carriers “One morning we were and then a FEMA-funded, See HOME, A11 or downloading apps from See CALLS, A11 Panama City News Herald Business .........................A9 Obituaries ...................... A5 TODAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Want to subscribe? 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