NYC health department says yeshivas still allowing unvaccinated children to attend

New York City’s health department yesterday identified five more yeshivas that are allowing unvaccinated children to attend, in violation of the agency’s directive during an ongoing measles outbreak. There have been 158 cases in the city’s Orthodox Jewish community since last October, with the majority of infections in children under 18. The department put its directive in place last December for students in certain ZIP codes who did not have the required number of doses of MMR vaccine. “The outbreak is not over, and we will continue to see additional cases as long as unvaccinated students are not properly excluded from attending school,” city Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said in a statement.