US May Lose Measles Status

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Timothy McBride

@mcbridetd.bsky.social

What Losing Measles Elimination Says About The United States www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

What Losing Measles Elimination Says About The United States

Many experts believe the US has lost status with the rest of the world as "personal freedom" has trumped public health and vaccination. Measles cases will keep growing.

www.forbes.com

November 14, 2026 at 10:02 PM

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Reiner Leidl

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For those believing in evidence, the continuous increase of measles cases in the U.S. could not be disregarded bsky.app/profile/leid...

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 4d

The U.S. has lost its measles-elimination status, and RFK Jr is to blame.

November 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM

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Daniel Aldrich

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Make America contagious again: U.S. has lost its status as a country where measles is eliminated, a public health triumph secured a quarter century ago
www.npr.org/2026/11/14/n...

US has lost measles elimination status, global health authorities say

The U.S. has lost its status as a country where measles is eliminated, according to researchers with direct knowledge of the deliberations at the Pan American Health Organization.

www.npr.org

November 15, 2026 at 1:01 AM

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Timothy McBride

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Pennsylvania, Wisconsin report additional deaths linked to measles thehill.com/policy/healt...

Pennsylvania, Wisconsin report additional deaths linked to measles

The U.S. reached 10 measles deaths this year after additional deaths reported in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, a concerning sign as the previously eradicated disease makes a resurgence worldwide and …

thehill.com

November 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM

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Reiner Leidl

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And disregarding evidence happens to fit finely with the 'science policy' achieved in general...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 22h

American scientific dominance is collapsing, thanks to Trump.

According to a new article from NYT, new Ph.D. enrollments are down, funding is on the decline & many researchers are reconsidering their careers.

November 14, 2026 at 10:32 PM

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Timothy McBride

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RFK Jr. Failed America on Measles www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

RFK Jr. Failed America on Measles

The virus is once again endemic in the United States.

www.theatlantic.com

November 14, 2026 at 8:04 PM

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Aparna Nair

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For RFK jr and his ilk, measles is a ‘culling’ technique, one designed to eradicate the ‘weak’ and ‘strengthen’ the already ‘strong’.

Our squeamishness about naming things, ideas and people as eugenicist is partly why we are here.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

It’s official: Measles is no longer a disease that is eliminated in the US. I can’t emphasize enough how catastrophic a failure this is when a vaccine that is 97% effective exists.