Going against CDC guidance, Florida’s top health official said parents and guardians can decide for themselves whether to send unvaccinated students to an elementary school with an ongoing measles outbreak.
The outbreak at Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, Florida, remained at six confirmed cases as of Friday morning, a spokesperson for Broward County Public Schools told Healio. The first case was reported Feb. 16 in a third grader with no history of travel, according to a state health department alert sent to providers.
The CDC recommends that unvaccinated children who have been