We’re into week 8 of the measles epidemic in Samoa and as I am writing this 48 people have died 1 adult, 47 children and over 3000 people reported infected. These figures are growing rapidly every day, and every day my Facebook feed is flooded with images of children in ICU, families desperately lining up to vaccinate their children, and photos of children who have lost their battle against the illness and parents sobbing over their small bodies. How did we fail our most vulnerable?
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