Sunday, February 8, 2026
DC Department of Health is Working to Identify People Who Are at Risk
(Washington, DC) - DC Health was notified of multiple confirmed cases of measles whose carriers visited multiple locations in the District while contagious. DC Health is informing people who were at these locations that they may have been exposed.
Listed below are the date, time, and location of the potential exposure sites associated with this case of measles:
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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, located at 400 Michigan Ave. NE Washington, DC 20017
Wednesday, January 21st from 3:30pm- 8:00pm
National March for Life Rally and Concert
Friday, January 23rd from 11:00am- 5:00pm
Catholic University of America, Garvey Hall
Saturday, January 24th from 12:00pm- 3:00pm
Sunday January 25th from 12:00pm-3:00pm
Catholic University of America, Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center
Saturday, January 24th from 6:00pm- 9:00pm
Sunday January 25th from 6:00pm-9:00pm
Catholic University of America, St. Vincent de Paul Chapel
Sunday January 25th from 9:00pm-12:00am
Washington Metro Area Transit: Red Line Train from Brookland- CUA station transferring at the Gallery Place- Chinatown station to the Yellow Line Train heading towards the Huntington Station
Monday January 26th, 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Monday January 26th, 12:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Washington Metro Area Transit: Yellow Line Train from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport station transferring at the Gallery Place- Chinatown station to the Red Line Train heading towards the Glenmont station
Monday January 26th, 8:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Washington Metro Area Transit: Red Line Train from Brookland- CUA Station heading towards Shady Grove Station
Tuesday, January 27th from 1:15 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Amtrak Concourse, Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002:
Tuesday, January 27th, 1:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 176,
Northbound from Washington Union Station
Tuesday, January 27th from 4:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Children’s National Medical Center, Emergency Department, 111 Michigan Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20010
Monday February 2nd, 11:15 a.m.-1:45 p.m
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@msbellows @Gorfram The entire Catholic student population in DC and beyond appears to have been exposed. Plus all the people who took public transit. Plus, a presumably anti-vaxxer heavy population of people going back to their hometowns to spread it further.
Measles is a highly contagious illness that can spread easily through the air when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes. Measles symptoms usually appear in two stages. In the first stage, most people have a fever greater than 101 degrees, a runny nose, watery red eyes, and a cough. These symptoms usually start 7 to 14 days after being exposed. The second stage starts 3 to 5 days after symptoms start, when a rash begins to appear on the face and spread to the rest of the body. People with measles are contagious from 4 days before the rash appears through 4 days after the rash appears.
What should you do if you were at the above location on the day and time specified?
People who might have been exposed and are not immune should contact their health care provider or DC Health at 844-493-2652 for more guidance.
If you have never received a measles-containing vaccine (either the measles, mumps, and rubella [MMR] vaccine or a measles-only vaccine, which is available in other countries), you may be at risk of developing measles. Anyone who was exposed and is at risk of developing measles should watch for symptoms until 21 days following the date of their last exposure. If you notice the symptoms of measles, immediately isolate yourself by staying home and away from others. Contact your healthcare provider immediately. Call ahead before going to your healthcare provider’s office or the emergency room to notify them that you may have been exposed to measles and ask them to call the health department to help protect other patients and staff.
If you have received two doses of a measles-containing vaccine or were born before 1957, you are protected and do not need to take any action.
If you have received only one dose of a measles-containing vaccine, you are very likely to be protected, and your risk of being infected with measles from any of these exposures is very low. However, to achieve complete immunity, contact your healthcare provider about getting a second vaccine dose.
If you have an immunocompromising condition, please consult your healthcare provider if you have questions or develop symptoms.
Measles is preventable through a safe and effective MMR vaccine. Two doses of the vaccine are given to provide lifetime protection. However, infants younger than 12 months of age are too young to be vaccinated. These infants, and others who are not vaccinated, are very susceptible to infection if they are exposed to someone with measles. If you or your child has not yet been vaccinated, call DC Health or a healthcare provider to get the first of two doses as soon as possible. To check your immunization status, call your healthcare provider or contact DC Health.
Healthcare providers should maintain an increased index of suspicion for measles in clinically compatible cases at all times, especially if patients were recently exposed. Measles is an immediately reportable disease. Contact DC Health right away to report any suspected cases and arrange for public health testing. Suspected cases can be reported by healthcare providers via telephone at 844-493-2652 or by submitting a Notifiable Disease and Condition Case Report Form online using the DC Reporting and Surveillance Center (DCRC), which can be found on our Infectious Diseases website dchealth.dc.gov/node/143092
For additional guidance on testing and infection control measures for healthcare providers, visit https://dchealth.dc.gov/page/measles-information-healthcare-providers.
If you have any questions about these potential exposures, please contact DC Health at 844-493-2652 or via email at doh.epi@dc.gov
https://dchealth.dc.gov/release/health-officials-investigating-measles-exposures-dc-residents
@ai6yr There are costs as well if you want to look it at it that way and set aside the emotional and physical pain the patient and families go through
Penny wise, pound foolish: The cost of reduced support for measles prevention
"A 2025 US measles outbreak with 1500 estimated cases could cost $90.0 million, combining direct medical costs, productivity losses, and public health response."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264410X25011272
A multi year study out of South Africa from 2013 estimated the cost of a PICU admission at "Patients with MRD occupied 379 bed days with a median (interquartile range) duration of stay of 5.5 (3.0–9.0) days at an estimated overall cost of R4 813 300 (approximately $543 900)
That would be $765,000 or so in 2025 dollars
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpc.12486
A 2022 study showed that just these 4 vaccine preventable disease influenza, pneumococcal disease, herpes zoster and pertussis cost over 26 Billion to the health care system
@cvvhrn So senseless.
Eugenics & Fascism by the wealthiest takes many forms.
Remember the names of the billionaires who financed RFK Jr and the antivaxxer malign influence campaigns.
Tim Mellon. Koch Network. Rockbridge Network.
Bill Ackman. Jack Dorsey. Elon Musk. Bernard Selz. Steve Kirsch.
https://www.businessinsider.com/rfk-jr-anti-vax-jack-dorsey-bill-ackman-chamath-palihapitiya-2023-7
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-vaccines-skeptic/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/us/rfk-jr-finances.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/02/robert-f-kennedy-jr-republican-donor-super-pac
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/23/koch_hijacked_war_on_covid
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@ai6yr I just went and got my MMR booster last week because yikes
@ai6yr SO food for thought. Many will never have to experience caring for let alone being the parent of a vaccine preventable diseases in an PICU. Watching them literally go through multiple stages of grief, often lingering on the anger part, in a week.
I have spent many a night listening to prayers that will never come, attempts to explain why they chose that path, endless tears, and the question that haunts any seasoned ICU nurse: Why?
A parents first duty is to keep their child safe. Many of these parents that chose not to immunize their kids would not hesitate to sacrifice themselves if to save that child, yet allow this impulse to be hijacked because a former centerfold, or a guy who drinks methyl blue and claims he has a brain worm says so.
The child below was from the linked article. He has influenza. I could not find an end stage Measles that was okay to post but its horrifying. Make no mistake we in the PICU will go through the stages as well
https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/2022/01/12/manitoba-toddler-icu-intubated/
@cvvhrn @ai6yr Our twins were in the NICU for weeks after my body was essentially shutting down during pregnancy (HELLP syndrome). It is IMO the heaviest place where I felt like Thoreau’s line about “lives of quiet desperation” was the only apt description. And we had the best outcomes possible but there was so much tragedy and grief all around.
Sounds like you’re a PICU nurse? Thank you so much for all you do!!
@StephanieMoore @ai6yr Thanks! And glad to see you were able to get past HELLP as it is a nasty bugger
I started in the PICU and CVICU (peds) then in 2002 transitioned to Pediatric Critical Care Transport based out of the PICU. We do ground, rotor and fixed wing interfacility transports
@cvvhrn @StephanieMoore @ai6yr uggh, the picture gave me instant flashbacks (no worries, people need to see what it's like), my son passed away almost five years ago to the day due to complications between his disability and a bad cold. I've probably literally spent years in the PICU. I cannot even remotely fathom the brain of a parent who wouldn't do everything humanly possible to keep their kids healthy.
