Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min · 4 segments
**Today:** Your algorithm may have spent the last week scaring you about the plague, but probably the wrong one. Pennsylvania has reported over one thousand measles cases, with 198 hospitalized and…
Quinn EmmettHost
As of a couple days ago, Pennsylvania has one thousand and four measles cases this year across thirty-nine counties.
A hundred and ninety-eight people in the old hospital, five dead, and the American Academy of Pediatrics says two of them were babies.
One state, about a quarter of every measles case in the US this year, which is not something I ever wanted to say, and the first measles deaths there in thirty-five years.
Pennsylvania gave more than forty-nine thousand measles shots in August and fifty-three thousand in September.
As of a couple days ago, it says two people have died of measles in the US this year.
The CDC's explanation in writing is that it's still working out a definition of what counts as a measles death.
If you are pregnant or you've got a newborn, ask your doctor one question today: Am I immune to measles? Because pediatricians say a baby born to a mom who catches measles right before delivery has about a one in four chance of catching it too.
And then head over to whatcanido.earth and tell Congress to make the CDC count measles deaths the way that states do.
As of a couple days ago, Pennsylvania has one thousand and four measles cases this year across thirty-nine counties.
A hundred and ninety-eight people in the old hospital, five dead, and the American Academy of Pediatrics says two of them were babies.
One state, about a quarter of every measles case in the US this year, which is not something I ever wanted to say, and the first measles deaths there in thirty-five years.
Pennsylvania gave more than forty-nine thousand measles shots in August and fifty-three thousand in September.
As of a couple days ago, it says two people have died of measles in the US this year.
The CDC's explanation in writing is that it's still working out a definition of what counts as a measles death.
If you are pregnant or you've got a newborn, ask your doctor one question today: Am I immune to measles? Because pediatricians say a baby born to a mom who catches measles right before delivery has about a one in four chance of catching it too.
And then head over to whatcanido.earth and tell Congress to make the CDC count measles deaths the way that states do.
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