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Two people died from measles in Pennsylvania—the first measles deaths in the state in 35 years—reigniting calls for Health Secretary RFK Jr. to resign. An outbreak linked to low vaccination rates highlights concerns over vaccine hesitancy in the Trump administration.
Two people died from measles in Pennsylvania—the first measles deaths in the state in 35 years. The deaths are being linked to low vaccination rates, and they've reignited calls for Health Secretary RFK Jr. to resign. Measles hadn't killed anyone in Pennsylvania for more than three decades; now it has twice in what appears to be a single outbreak.
RFK Jr. has been a prominent vaccine skeptic. His appointment as Health Secretary happened amid broader vaccine hesitancy, and now measles deaths are occurring for the first time in a generation. The connection doesn't require conspiracy; it's linear. When vaccine hesitancy rises among policy leadership and the public, vaccination rates decline, and diseases that had been controlled reemerge. Two deaths from a preventable disease that hasn't killed in Pennsylvania since the 1990s is not a coincidence of timing; it's the predictable consequence of changing vaccination norms.
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