By Tanya Berlaga Governor Josh Shapiro would be best advised to stop leveraging two dead babies for national attention to his future political ambitions.
A six-week-old infant’s death in Pennsylvania was caused by measles, the Lancaster County coroner confirmed Friday.
The child was born with Amish lethal microcephaly, a rare genetic disorder that can lead to viral infections and typically results in death within months of birth.
The Lancaster County coroner said he did not know if this death is one of the two disputed by federal health officials.
Public health workers are relying on word-of-mouth immunization clinics to fight the state’s growing outbreak.
Influenza, covid-19 and RSV are expected to send hundreds of thousands of Americans to the hospital this fall.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz are both challenging the reports of two measles deaths in Pennsylvania. Alicia Menendez has more details.
The deaths have been at the heart of a bitter political dispute between RFK Jr. and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D).
Josh Shapiro announced two measles deaths. Things went downhill fast.
During a news conference Friday, Shapiro doubled down on the department’s classification of the deaths as measles-related saying, “the Department of Health has made clear that they've shared all the information that they are permitted under state law to share, and that those two deaths were measles related.”