Trump officials cast doubt on Pennsylvania measles death claims
Top Trump administration health officials are openly questioning the circumstances of two deaths that Pennsylvania officials attributed to measles. “We don't know exactly what happened in Pennsylvania yet,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in an interview Thursday on Fox Business. “We don't know if the children died...
Two unvaccinated people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have died from measles, marking the first measles-related deaths in the United States this year, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The deaths are also the first measles fatalities in Pennsylvania in 35 years.
The individuals who died were residents of Lancaster County, but their identities and further details have not been released by the Department of Health to protect their privacy.
There have been 393 confirmed cases of measles in Pennsylvania this year, across 28 counties. Nationwide, there have been 2,813 cases reported so far this year, according to the Johns Hopkins U.S. Measles Tracker, already exceeding the total number of measles cases reported in 2025, which was 2,289.
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