A disease once nearly vanquished from American life is claiming lives again, exposing the fragility of public health gains that depend on sustained collective will. As federal leadership under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remains largely absent from measles outbreak response, local officials across the country have stepped into the breach — launching vaccination drives and public health campaigns with the resources they have. The divergence between federal silence and local urgency raises a question as old as governance itself: whether a patchwork of good intentions can hold against a threat that rec
Measles Deaths Rise as Local Officials Fill Vaccine Leadership Void
Measles deaths are occurring in the United States, indicating direct mortality from a vaccine-preventable disease.