Lancaster County

It is true that the two deaths were unvaccinated individuals, but they did not qualify to get the vaccine.

They were in Lancaster County, home of the largest Amish population.

One of the infants has, the last I read, the coroner confirmed that the infant tested positive for measles but did not die of measles.

That infant died of a lacerated spleen.

So that's not entirely true.

So

as you said, Lancaster County is the home of the largest Amish settlement in the country.

And according to the Pennsylvania state and local officials, They're saying that the community, the Amish community in Lancaster County has 25 percent of the Amish vaccinated against MMR.

Down off the shelf, right back in front of you again.

Because in Pennsylvania, Governor Josh Shapiro just rushed himself from Harrisburg to Lancaster County, not that far away.

He has this big national press conference and announces two measle deaths.

Highly politicized.

For Pete's sake, and here we have it going on all over again, but there's a small little problem with Governor Shapiro's story.

The local people say he isn't telling the truth.

Now, Joshua Parsons, who's one of Lancaster County's own commissioners, accused the governor of deliberately being deceptive.

That's a homeboy, a local boy, a member of the county commission, says the governor himself is being deceptive.

Investigators would later find a drop of Luna's blood on the toll ticket from that exit, a sign that he was bleeding by that time.

Around 5 a.m. that morning, a worker arriving at a well drilling company in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about 95 miles from Baltimore, noticed a car in a ditch on the property.

The sedan's front end was submerged in a small creek, and its headlights were still on.

It was Luna's Honda Accord.

Investigators found Luna's own pocket knife near the scene, covered in blood.

Ultimately, the autopsy concluded he drowned while bleeding from his injuries.

The local Lancaster County coroner quickly ruled Luna's death a slaying, given the multiple injuries and circumstances.

Also, keep this ruling in mind, because there are some very different theories of what may have happened, some of which seem virtually incomprehensible.

I'm Karen Hendricks, and today we're exploring history along the Susquehanna, focusing on how the river supported industries, which in turn led to river towns, which in turn led to prominent businessmen and community leaders through the 1800s into the early 1900s.

In today's podcast, we're especially going to focus on the lumber industry, the Lancaster County river town of Marietta, and a community leader named Barr Spangler, who lived to be 100.

And here to guide us through this tale is historian, researcher, and genealogist, Eric Schubert.

Welcome, Eric, and thank you so much for being here.

I'm a public historian, genealogist.

I live downtown here in Lancaster City, which I have for the past few years, very much enjoy.

I moved to Lancaster County from, I was going to college at Elizabethtown.

So I sort of just went to E-Town, got my history degree.

We've hit 85 now in Wilmington, Delaware, 81 in CIL City, 80 in Trenton, and we do continue with the mid to upper 70s for many of our northwest suburbs into the Lehigh Valley.

With Storm Tracker 6, again, the most activity has been west of the city into parts of Chester County, our exclusive radar site in Lancaster County, This lone little downpour I'm tracking from East Nottingham approaching parts of Newcastle County, Delaware.

Eventually, if it holds together, it could make its way all the way to Pennsville, New Jersey, out to Salem as well.

All of this action as it's pressed its way to the east has really fallen apart, which is good news for us.

But the low to middle 80s continue from Wilmington out to Sea Isle with Storm Tracker 6.

Again, one of those downpours.

Parts of Chester now moving into Newcastle County, Delaware, our exclusive radar site in Lancaster County.

Outside of that, it's been few and far between, but very spotty in nature.

It's all over the headlines in Pennsylvania because the health department recently announced that there were two deaths in the state tied to measles or associated with the measles virus.

Well, the coroner for one of the deaths for Lancaster County, this guy named Dr. Stephen Diamante, said in an interview that one of the infant's deaths wasn't from measles.

I'll read you a direct quote about that from NBC because I don't want to get sued.

But that was kind of like the headline that's going around like coroner denies measles death.

Hmm.

The health secretary, Dr. Deborah Bogan, expressed confidence Wednesday in her department's conclusion that the death was measles-associated, a term that means there was a laboratory or epidemiologic evidence of a measles infection.

As a pediatrician with more than 30 years caring for children, I have thoroughly reviewed the case investigation information and sadly can confirm that there were two recent measles-associated deaths in Lancaster County, Bogan said in a statement.

I don't know the specifics of that case, but I believe the mom had contracted measles.

on Amos Miller's operations here.

I've not been able to make contact with Amos Miller yet, but once again, Amos Miller's property here in Burden Hand, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, law enforcement is once again harassing Amos Miller for serving his neighbors.

And here we have a search warrant being executed, not allowing media to enter the building.

Stay tuned for this is a developing story.

And this is, in many ways, I'm seeing the same playbook being played out here with the measles situation that we saw with the Amos Miller case.

First of all, the governor comes out and he says there are two measles associated deaths, knowing full well that the press would run with that as two people died of measles.

The only reason we know otherwise is that the Lancaster County coroner and the Lancaster County commissioner decided not to play ball.

And they came forward and said, first of all, we're aware of one baby who died in a very difficult birth of a lacerated, a traumatically lacerated spleen who tested for supposedly PCR testing for measles antibodies were present.

You're very close.

It's the Shady Maple Smorgasbord in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Its buffet is more than 200 feet long.

Has more than 100 food choices and seating for roughly 1,200 people.

The Department of Health is listing 731 confirmed cases across 38 counties, with 38 new cases since Monday's update.

Of the cumulative cases, 316 are listed in Lancaster County.

Mifflin County comes in second with 83.

The measles associated death count remains at 4%.