South Carolina mobile clinic offers vaccines in area seeing measles outbreak with hundreds of cases

Описание: (13 Feb 2026)
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Inman, South Carolina - 13 February 2026
1. Wide of a warning sign outside of mobile clinic.
2. Mid of Tracy Hobbs leaving a mobile health clinic with her children.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tracy Hobbs, Inman, South Carolina resident:
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"They just got their measles, mumps, rubella for the first time today, and they are autistic."
(Reporter: "The two twins as well?")
Hobbs: "The twins are autistic as well. Yes, all three of my children are autistic."
4. Mid of Tracy Hobbs with her children.
5. Mid of a child playing with chalk outside of a mobile clinic.
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tracy Hobbs, Inman, South Carolina resident:
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"What had happened was there was conflicting information about whether the vaccines were causing autism or not, so we were afraid that if we had gotten the kids the vaccines that it might actually cause autism. So and that's really messed up because what are you supposed to believe?"
7. Wide of sign advertising measles and flu vaccines outside of mobile clinic.
8. Close up of South Carolina Department of Public Health logo on a mobile clinic.
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tracy Hobbs, Inman, South Carolina resident:
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"It just came down to the point that my children's health is more important than the politics and everything going on, and I'm just not going to take that chance that they're going to get sick and get measles."
10. Wide of mobile clinic.
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tracy Hobbs, Inman, South Carolina resident:
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"I understand if you know you don't want your kid to get that vaccine because of that, you know, it's, you know, what about your kid's best friend? What if they end up dying because they end up getting this measles and it's 10 times worse on that kid than it was on your kid? The measles aren't really something to play with, you know, I mean, from what I've heard, you know, from it was pretty much eradicated. You know, and now they're talking about also on the news that these kids could be getting these diseases under the age of 2 that could have long term effects."
12. Wide of mobile clinic.
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Tracy Hobbs, Inman, South Carolina resident:
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"I'm glad. I'm very, very glad that they're vaccinated. I don't have to be worried about them getting it no matter where they go, so, you know, it's, it's, it's very relieving. It really is."
13. Mid of Tracy Hobbs walking to her car with her son.
STORYLINE:
The South Carolina Department of Public Health launched mobile clinics for free measles vaccines after the state reported an outbreak with hundreds of cases that began in October.

A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states.

The appeal is from Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator. And it comes as the United States is at risk of losing its measles elimination status and as Oz's boss, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has raised suspicion about the safety and importance of vaccines.

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