Diego Mendoza-Moyers: Today, we’re talking about measles and an alarming lack of government coordination to contain the spread of the infectious disease in El Paso.
After we’ve seen multiple measles outbreaks in West Texas since last year – tied in part to federal migrant detention centers – unearthed emails show how public health officials at different levels of government were flying blind when it came to containing measles in El Paso.
Some ambulance drivers were unaware of their passenger patient’s measles status, while local public health officials said the federal government hasn’t been routinely sharing medical information about migrant detainees…