A newborn and child reportedly died of measles; CDC isn't counting them
Historically, state health departments determine cases and deaths, not the CDC.
Historically, state health departments determine cases and deaths, not the CDC.
The short version
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania health officials last week from its latest update of national measles data.
- The move publicly challenges the accuracy of the state’s death determinations in an extraordinary move that breaks precedent that states are the arbiters of case and death determinations, not the CDC.
- The move comes after anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F.
What happened
Kennedy Jr. got into a public spat with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro over Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric. But news has since trickled out that one of the people who died was a newborn and, according to reporting Tuesday by the Times , the other was a child.
Why it matters
Both were unvaccinated and from Lancaster County.
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