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Pennsylvania threatens to drop CDC aid over measles death classification dispute

State says it will rescind emergency outbreak request unless federal agency recognizes four deaths it attributes to measles.

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What to know

  • Pennsylvania is threatening to withdraw its request for CDC emergency outbreak assistance unless the federal agency publicly counts four measles deaths; the CDC says available evidence does not establish measles as the cause.
  • The outbreak is the worst in the US since 1991, with 731 confirmed cases across 38 counties and 141 hospitalizations; less than 1% of cases are among vaccinated people.
  • The dispute hinges on the distinction between 'measles-associated' deaths (deaths occurring in someone with measles) and deaths 'caused by' measles, a technical classification disagreement that has become a public health standoff.
  • Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. questioned CDC's initial classification of the first two deaths, prompting the agency to remove them from its national tally and opening the rift with Pennsylvania.

“The people of Pennsylvania should never be used as leverage in a political dispute over how deaths are classified.”

Grace Davis Jamison, HHS press secretary · Al Jazeera ↗

Debra Bogen Pennsylvania Health SecretaryGrace Davis Jamison HHS press secretaryErica SchwartzErica Schwartz CDC DirectorJosh ShapiroJosh Shapiro Pennsylvania GovernorRobert F. Kennedy Jr.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Health Secretary

Pennsylvania threatens to drop CDC aid over measles death classification dispute
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    HHS press secretary calls Pennsylvania's ultimatum political blackmail

    Grace Davis Jamison, press secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, stated that the CDC had not received Pennsylvania's request through normal channels and rejected the state's conditioning of aid on death classification as an attempt to politicize public health response.

    “CDC will not allow [Pennsylvania Democratic] Governor [Josh] Shapiro to politicize this process. CDC will not submit to political blackmail that conditions critical public health assistance.”
    — Grace Davis Jamison
    1. 1 outlet Pennsylvania seeks CDC help amid dispute over US measles deaths

      first by Al Jazeera, 5d ago

    • theferrarilab.bsky.social

      Props to @aljazeera.com for using my coherent quotes. I can assure you I gave them some gibberish they could have pulled from.

      theferrarilab.bsky.socialBluesky5d agoview on Bluesky ↗
  2. background

    Pennsylvania Health Secretary sends conditional Epi-Aid request to CDC Director — Health Secretary Debra Bogen wrote to CDC Director Erica Schwartz that Pennsylvania would withdraw its emergency assistance request unless the CDC publicly recognized the four measles-associated deaths, saying the agency's refusal undermines the state's response.

  3. background

    Pennsylvania announces two additional measles deaths — The state confirmed a fourth measles-associated death and announced a second additional death, bringing the total to four unvaccinated deaths. Confirmed cases had grown to a significant portion of the 731 now reported across 38 counties.

  4. background

    County coroner reports third measles death — A 40-year-old unvaccinated woman died from complications associated with measles, confirmed by the state.

  5. background

    Pennsylvania reports first two measles deaths in Lancaster County — Two unvaccinated people died of measles in Lancaster County, at the heart of Pennsylvania's Amish and Mennonite communities. The state reported 393 cases across 28 counties at this time.

  6. background

    CDC includes deaths in tally, then removes them after Kennedy questions classification — The CDC initially counted the two deaths in its national measles tally but subsequently removed them after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. questioned whether measles had caused or contributed to the fatalities. The agency said available information did not establish measles causation.