“This is not only a public health emergency, it’s now evolved. This is a breach of national security. Now that we’re seeing all these eradicated diseases, I mean, we don’t need to talk about influenza and COVID anymore. We need to be talking about tuberculosis, measles, mumps,” Douglas said in a phone interview this week. “We can’t continue to do nothing. And so a quick and inexpensive vaccination of that is the most effective health care tool that we have.”