mo4ch:>NYC officials shut Orthodox Jewish daycare over measles data access | Mo4ch News

An Orthodox Jewish daycare has been shut by New York City's Health Department after it violated a city order about the measles public health emergency, while 23 other daycares and yeshivas have received violation notices.The United Talmudical Academy in the Haredi neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn failed to “provide access to medical and attendance records,” the health department said, which made it impossible to check whether the school has been excluding staff and students who aren’t vaccinated against measles.A public health emergency was declared in four areas of Brooklyn last week to deal with the measles outbreak, the worst the city has seen since 1991. The areas affected are largely in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities.All children over six months of age were required to get the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, and parents who didn’t comply could be fined $1,000. Schools were told to only accept vaccinated children and to keep medical and attendance records that au…