US excludes Pennsylvania measles deaths from national counts
Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.
Nancy Ann ❌👑 👍🏻🐸61Same as Covid. Semantics. They didn’t die “of measles”, but some secondery cause after measles made them very ill. Trump didn’t want COVID deaths counted. Of course he doesn’t want measles deaths counted.
Dosco Jones43The new CDC Director is actively lying to us.
Clark Valentine25The evidence will show that the victim died _with_ concrete shoes, not _of_ them. Having your feet encased in concrete might be uncomfortable, but it cannot possibly be lethal.
Übermentions24They'll tell you with a straight face that nobody dies from measles and it's always the comorbidities that are the actual cause, then turn around and say that Doritos are killing people.
Wow. We'll look back on this Idiot administration and the stats will say that nobody died from infectious diseases at all. Only died with them. USA will have to rebuilt from scratch.
Kurt Weldon14I'd go with "betraying" rather than "failing," but that's quibbling...
Convolver64*slaps roof of White House* this bad boy can fit so many 18 USC §1001 violations in it
Oliver Rautenberg | Antifaschist, Antitheist, Queer57Daten über Maserntote in den USA werden gelöscht.
Mzbitca40This is what happens when we have to pretend conspiracy theorists are earnestly engaging in something. They are not trying to seek information, they believe they already know the truth and anything that challenges that is wrong or a lie
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH39Reminds me of Donald Trump on Covid: "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any" Truth disrupts the goals of authoritarianism & fascism, thus truth (& a shared reality, based on facts, data, & evidence) must be destroyed. In its place comes data manipulation & propaganda.
babs ✨31they're doing it before your eyes—again. if you still think the government has your best interest in mind when giving guidance on staying healthy, what more do they have to do for you to believe what they're showing you: they do not care.
Derek Powazek23If they're cooking the books on numbers we know about, imagine what they're doing on the numbers we don't.
🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽21I am no doctor or scientist etc- but if a baby is surrounded by people with measles (at least 200 cases in that community) to the point his own mother and siblings has measles? My first thought is: that baby died from measles. Second thought: or from the mother having measles.
Jenn9This is your reminder babies can't get vaccinated against measles, and one of the deaths was a NEWBORN.
TV's Adam, getting some buzzards involved,5tweaking the numbers to make a disease seem less prevalent and deadly than it actually is so their deliberate negligence isn’t as obviously monstrous? the cdc is playing all the old hits lately
Zamafir4Republicans are the greatest threat America faces.
Erica Schwartz, the new CDC director, ordered agency officials to challenge two measles deaths reported by PA, shunning the agency’s normal procedure of accepting state data and amplifying comments made by her boss, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/h...
Dr. Scandal Piñata110Well I guess that answers the question of whether she is going to follow her professional training or her boss
Observations on the Failings of Humanity44Wait, the CDC is now defending measles from state officials who are blaming it for deaths!?! It truly has to become the Centers for Disease.
Ferric Fang, MD34Great work, CDC. This will be an enormous consolation to the parents of the dead children.
Trevor Hollowed34If you stop the testing, all the COVID cases will just disappear.
Wanda31Disgraceful and way to traumatize grieving families
Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️⚧️☮️19Not wanting to attribute deaths to measles sounds familiar to not wanting to count maternal deaths post abortion ban. www.texasobserver.org/maternal-mor...
Jonathan Howard35The only way she can do her job is to get fired. Courageous people have set a precedent for her already.
Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD21this is so anti-Bayesian and anti-clinical, it hurts this was a vertically transmitted infection in an unvaccinated mother-newborn dyad the signs and symptoms are fully consistent with perinatal measles what are we doing here????
Ezra Golberstein21I generally don't call things Orwellian, but this feels awfully Orwellian.
Alex Wild11Soviet-style apparatchik, fudging the numbers so as to keep the party bosses happy.
sara m. b. simon9writing about complicated and tragic cause-of-death data in pennsylvania used to be my literal job, and let me just say, i'm relieved it's not anymore
Renée Graham 🏳️🌈9This right here is why she was chosen for the job.
Liz5god this pisses me off. i live in lancaster county pa. the idea that officials here are *overly* concerned with this outbreak or exaggerating is fucking laughable.
Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her)5This is why public health officials told everyone she cannot be trusted. What an absolutely craven coward.
Serendipity3Confirmed: She's a tool, too.
surlyurbanist.bsky.social2My own blind spot but I am truly flabbergasted by the number of Black professionals who carry water for these fucks
Kennedy and the CDC aren't yet counting the Pennsylvania deaths from measles -- a "highly unusual” move, @drdebhoury.bsky.social told me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Deb Houry202PA cases are being handled differently than TX and NM. This further erodes trust and will damage CDC’s relationship with state health departments
Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS42If the account in The Atlantic is accurate, the infant death is 100% due to measles. -Mother contracted it late in pregnancy -Went into labor while severely ill from measles -baby born without a pulse, resuscitation attempted, died within the hour Pretending death not due to measles is insane😳
Vandy, C.A.12it's not "highly unusual" it's corruption and lying by omission !
AjiWings6They're never going to count them. They will refuse to do it simply because they've convinced themselves that no one has the right to tell them what to do. Trump is a monster. RFK Jr is more evil yet.
J5MAHA just = lying. As anyone with any experience in public health or medicine of any sort could have told you all along
Mel🏳️🌈 she/they universal healthcare now4Impeach and remove RFK JR.
Jer4"You didn't die of measles, because that would make us look bad, so instead you died of... something else. Shrug. Your lives don't matter to us, hahaha." -Your Government
JS4Man, this is a move typically reserved for "watery diarrhea" in, like, Eritrea
New CDC director delays adding Pennsylvania deaths to measles data
Los Lunas NM10I’ve never met a political party more comfortable politicizing deaths
Baumer8Her job is to protect Trump, not Americans. And she’s apparently on board with that.
RI Smith3Delays? That's a funny way to say, "refuses to acknowledge."
The 5th Dentist3Note that Rfkjr tries to spin, “well, they died with measles, not of measles”. And then in the next breath, he makes a big stink about “well, the bigger issue is diet-based disease”… and yet, did those people actually die “of” the food. Like, did they choke to death? A ridiculous ghoul…
Z3Yup, already betraying her oath. Sleeze bag, needs to lose license
Mister Sterling1She's perfect. The right woman at the right time. Chef's kiss.
The CDC hasn’t added the 2 Pennsylvania deaths to its measles database. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
John Locke of Boston 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱🇺🇦🏴☠️2“If we stop tracking measles deaths, the death rate from measles will go down.” From the same morons who brought us this gem: “If we do less testing, our case rate will go down.”
Grizzled Shopkeep1Have they at least noted the deaths of epidemiology, common sense, and holding leather-faced Dalek-sounding ghouls accountable for murder
The CDC's decision to exclude two deaths reported by Pennsylvania from updates of the national measles death tally "came from new CDC director Erica Schwartz, according to three former and current officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation."
Clean Observer8She’s corrupt and we’re fucked.
🧵 I told you Schwartz was going to be bad news at the CDC, and here we go: The CDC "is excluding two deaths reported by Pennsylvania from its weekly updates of a national measles death tally, a decision that came from new CDC director Erica Schwartz," per... 1/10 Gift 🎁 link: wapo.st/4xb3AtW
J. Offir, PhD82/ officials who "spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation." 🔹️The deaths are not included on the CDC’s website, which says "At this time, available information does not establish whether measles caused or contributed to the deaths or whether the individuals died from other...
J. Offir, PhD4P.S. I missed these 2 important notes: 1. "Schwartz told agency staff in a recent all-hands meeting that... she would be able to disagree with Kennedy," but "not in front of the media,” per a recording the WaPo got. 2. & a member of the Lancaster PA Board of Commissioners who's also a hospital...
