The Message of Measles
As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the U.S. in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease, Nick Paumgarten writes.
Saul Zucker died in June, five months short of his hundredth birthday. Less than two weeks later, the New York Legislature voted to remove the religious exemption. Following all this on a live stream was Howard Zucker, Saul's son—New York's commissioner of health.