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Mayor says city health and hospital partners monitoring measles outbreak; LBJ emergency room crowded
Summary
The mayor said city public-health leadership, hospitals and medical schools are coordinating on a measles outbreak and that he visited LBJ emergency room to review operations; no public-health orders were announced in the remarks.
The mayor said Houston's health director and hospital partners are coordinating a response to a measles outbreak reported in West Texas and that the city is monitoring emergency-room activity.
"You have to have have full alert with the medical director, go to your emergency centers, get the best real time information," the mayor said after visiting LBJ emergency room and speaking with the doctor in charge. He said LBJ was crowded, that interns and staff were working intensively and that the city is coordinating with medical schools and first responders.
The mayor did not announce new public-health orders, vaccination mandates or quarantine directives during the remarks. He said the city's public-health and emergency-response officials are the sources for technical decisions and that he relies on them for medical guidance.
The mayor emphasized outreach to lower-income communities where preventive care and routine access to health services are limited, noting that such gaps affect the ability to prevent outbreaks.
