School-level data can be a powerful tool for preventing and fighting outbreaks. Some states make it hard to find.
Classes are resuming amid record-high measles cases. A single case could cause major disruptions for those exposed.
Healthbeat revealed last month that state public health officials were hamstrung over the winter holiday break in their efforts to quickly warn and quarantine students and staff who had been exposed.
With schools closed for winter break, health officials couldn’t get critical information to identify and warn those exposed to measles of the need to quarantine.