Measles is still a worry. Please don't play with your life as if the concept is okay.

You only go around once.

Yes, the red line is the number of cases so far in 2026. The question that comes to mind while realizing the number of Americans vaccinated is falling, why are the breakthrough cases occurring? I worry about mutations or new varieties of the virus. it is nothing to play with and everyone who is capable of being vaccinated should be vaccinated

February 11, 2026

By Stephanie Soucheray, MA

A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) (click here) of the University of Pennsylvania shows a small yet significant decline in the perceived safety of influenza, COVID-19, and measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines among American adults. 

Though most Americans think all three of those vaccines are safe to take, there has been a decline over the past three years in perceived safety.

As compared with an Annenberg survey in November 2024, the perceived safety of the MMR vaccine is now 83% (down from 86%). Eighty percent of respondents said the flu vaccine is safe, down from 83% in 2024. There was no significant change in perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine in that time, with 65% of respondents in both years saying they perceive the vaccine as safe....

...In South Carolina, (click here) 876 people have been infected in an outbreak that began in October, 838 of them were either unvaccinated or unsure of their vaccination status. Only 38 people had been vaccinated, and 16 of those had received just one of the two recommended doses. A manuscript2 posted on the preprint server medRxiv in January uses modelling to suggest that there is a higher risk of breakthrough cases in scenarios involving greater interaction between unvaccinated and vaccinated people.

The good news for people who are vaccinated and still get infected is that the symptoms tend to be mild, says Lo, a co-author on the manuscript, which has not yet been peer reviewed. “It’s pretty rare to see the typical complications you might expect” from measles, he says....