Texas administered 15,000 more measles vaccinations (MMR) this year compared to 2024—and now there’s a growing measles outbreak that has surpassed the total number of cases reported across the entire United States last year. The news follows this website’s February report that measles cases in Gaines County, Texas, had jumped 242% following a health district campaign to hand out free measles vaccines. A measles outbreak after higher vaccination rates in Texas calls into question the shot’s claimed effectiveness and underlying design. Timeline & Numbers Between January 1 and March 16 last year, 158,000 measles vaccines were administered in the state, according to CBS News. During the same time this year, 173,000 measles doses were given. There are now more measles cases in Texas than there were across the United States in all of 2024. On Friday, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported 309 cases have been identified in the state since late January. That’s compared to only 285 cases nationwide last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. What’s worse, measles cases in West Texas are “still on the rise” and “local public health officials say they expect the virus to keep spreading for at least several more months and […]