Last Saturday, Zach Holbrooks walked into a mobile measles screening and vaccine clinic he had helped set up.
As the executive director of the South Plains Public Health District, which includes Gaines County, he dropped by to check on how many shots the crew had given out so far that day.
“Has it been busy today?” Holbrooks asked the two staffers in what’s normally a livestock show barn on the outskirts of downtown Seminole. “Not so far. We’ve only given one,” they replied.
Holbrooks works and lives in this town, the county seat, which in the last few weeks became the epicenter of the largest measles outbreak in three decades.
