In Pennsylvania, a preventable disease has claimed four lives — the most measles deaths the United States has seen in decades — and the silence where federal leadership should stand has grown loud enough that a governor has broken it by name. Josh Shapiro's public rebuke of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump places this outbreak at the intersection of public health and political consequence, where the cost of eroded vaccine trust is no longer abstract. The CDC, meanwhile, is working to establish what should already exist: a standard definition for counting the dead from a disease that vacc
Shapiro Blasts RFK Jr., Trump Over Measles Response as Pennsylvania Outbreak Worsens
Four measles-related deaths reported in Pennsylvania, the highest number in the US in decades.