Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
Compromised CDC
Historically, state and local health departments are the ones that make determinations about cases and deaths in an outbreak, and the CDC collects the reports for nationwide reporting.
Soon after Pennsylvania health officials announced the deaths, Kennedy got into a heated exchange with Governor Josh Shapiro, who criticized Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric and misinformation as helping to fuel such outbreaks. Kennedy fired back on social media, posting misinformation about the measles vaccine and claiming without evidence that the state may have “fabricated” the deaths.
When the CDC initially publicly reported the deaths on August 30, the agency included an unusual note saying that “Health departments make determinations about measles-associated deaths and share relevant information with CDC.” But now the two deaths have been deleted and what remains is an even more unusual note saying that the CDC was not reporting the deaths because “available information does not establish whether...
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