C.D.C. Director Challenges Pennsylvania’s Report of Two Measles Deaths

[u/AgentBlue62]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/health/measles-deaths-pennsylvania-schwartz-kennedy-shapiro.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.5eMz.dgPYG0ZJOddS&smid=url-share

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[u/Feisty-Barracuda5452]

I miss when the Federal Government worked on behalf of the country, not Trump and his ego.

[u/adelie42 → u/Feisty-Barracuda5452]

When was that?

[u/Couchman79]

Dr Schwartz is showing us why she was nominated to be the CDC Director by this administration. Alternative Truth is seeping into public health and we are now in the age where alternative science and alternative disease statistics are moving the US into 3rd world status.

[u/0tanod → u/Couchman79]

We needed to end this bullshit qualified immunity in trump 1. Let the public sue the pants of a few slimeballs and the behavior will end.

[u/JustFuckAllOfThem]

We all know the Pennsylvania test results were faked. /s

[u/NearABE]

Oddly I find this irrelevant.  All that matters is that measles is spreading.  That means public health is failing.   

We have had MMR technology since the mid 20th century.   

[u/Longjumping-Air1489 → u/NearABE]

Yeah but it magnetized you!

places spoon on cheek. Spoon falls

SEE? Magnetized!

/s

[u/oldcreaker]

CDC is no longer a viable source of information.

[u/sfled]

One of the two deaths involved a newborn with a ruptured spleen.

That's sad. Poor kid already had bad odds.

Details of the second case have not been disclosed, but both people were unvaccinated and both tested positive for the measles virus, according to the Pennsylvania Health Department.

Hopefully the Times will follow up.

[u/TickingTheMoments → u/sfled]

“They died of measles”

“No they didn’t. They died of secondary afflictions.”

Its the covid idiocy again.

[u/Then_Worldliness2866]

We're missing the point in these back and forth debate about if it was the measles or not.

In 2026 the very fact that it is a possibility, or even a discussion IS the problem.

[u/shibiwan]

They finally cured AIDS. Nobody else is going to die of AIDS at this rate.

[u/obamawonthepeacepriz]

Of course the orange ballsucker is doing that. They will try to blame everything bad they do on something else. Just like their orange pedo leader.