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C.D.C. Director Challenges Pennsylvania’s Report of Two Measles Deaths

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In Short: Soon after Pennsylvania health officials announced the deaths, Robert F. Kennedy got into a heated exchange with Governor Josh Shapiro, who criticized Robert F.

Soon after Pennsylvania health officials announced the deaths, Robert F. Kennedy got into a heated exchange with Governor Josh Shapiro, who criticized Robert F. Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric and misinformation as helping to fuel such outbreaks.

Early today, Reuters reported that Robert F. Kennedy instructed new CDC director Erica Schwartz to delete the two deaths from the agency’s website.

The deaths were of a newborn and a child, and they were reported last week by health officials in Pennsylvania.

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