Health secretary asks CDC to delete two measles deaths
Two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania health officials — a newborn and a child — were removed from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public measles data after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly instructed the CDC director to delete them, Reuters reported. CDC staff had reviewed the cases and accepted a measles-related characterization, yet the deaths were added and then removed from the public site on August 30; Inside Medicine reported they remain in the One CDC Data Platform internal database. HHS said the deaths are not confirmed on currently available information, and Pennsylvania says it provided required data.
Two reported measles deaths were removed from CDC public data.
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Pennsylvania reported two measles deaths during a 540-case outbreak. The health secretary asked the CDC director to remove the deaths from the public site. The CDC's internal database still lists the deaths and the agency says confirmation…
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