National Center for Health Statistics

Pennsylvania has reported nearly one thousand cases across thirty-nine counties, five measles-associated death.

The federal count currently lists fewer deaths because the CDC and the National Center for Health Statistics have their own new verification process under RFK Jr. Pennsylvania and the federal system are counting these somewhat separately, and that discrepancy will be eventually be sorted out.

What should not get lost is that people who have died, and hundreds of people have been hospitalized.

But here's the genuinely good part of the story.

Brand down for 72% of Americans who are chronically exhausted.

This is a new CDC study report for the National Center for Health Statistics based on a 27,000 person national health interview survey found that 71.5% of US adults experience fatigue over any three month period.

An additional 16% report frequent fatigue, meaning exhausted most days or every day.

The CDC defines fatigue as physical and mental exhaustion does not improve with rest.

So the federal government has revised how they count measles death.

Now, The Guardian reported this last Monday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is going to base its measles death count on data from the National Center for Health Statistics.

Now, what's that? Well, it's a group that identifies itself as the nation's principal statistics agency, trying to show how Americans' health changes over time.

Now, previously, the CDC drew its measles death figures from the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System, which receives public health surveillance data from state, local, and territorial health departments.

does that mean no deaths from measles it doesn't mean that there were deaths for other reasons for which measles was associated in the sense that they tested positive for measles dying from cancer dying from stroke dying from heart attack but if they had an identifiable measles infection at the same time, it would be called a measles-associated death, which is just absolute lie.

Now, think about that.

Now, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is still kind of mum about this, but they report measles death if and when the National Center for Health Statistics reports measles as the underlying cause of death.

And so far, they have none.

So for instance, there's currently a measles outbreak.

The CDC switched to a different system, which is run by the National Center for Health Statistics, which is built to track mortality trends over years and works on a much kind of slower timescale.

That system had no records for 2026 listing measles as the underlying cause of death.

for many weeks and has only just updated to have one death from measles, with no details on where that death happened.

It's a system that funnels information directly from local health departments to the CDC about individual cases in real time.

Now, they've decided to use data from the National Center for Health Statistics, or NCHS, which is a system designed to look at mortality trends over time, not to confirm individual causes of death.

The change was announced after a report by Reuters that found HHS Secretary Kennedy had asked CDC Director Erica Schwartz not to count two deaths in infants from Pennsylvania.

This is despite the coroner attributing measles as the cause of death in one infant and saying that the other death was measles-related.

What we do have are statistics for diseases in which intestinal barrier dysfunction is well documented.

In August 2026, the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics reported that approximately 4.1 million American adults had been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

That's about 1.6% of the American adults.

Approximately 1.3 million adults reported Crohn's disease, while 3.1 million reported ulcerative colitis.

It was over.

The National Center for Health Statistics stopped keeping statistics.

It was over with.

What was interesting is, well, everything's kind of over with except for the vaccines.