health policy
As PA measles cases skyrocket, Shapiro-RFK Jr. beef expands
As Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak hit disturbing new milestones this week – including the country’s largest reported measles death total since the 1990s – tensions flared again between Gov. Josh Shapiro and federal health czar Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over death counts and declining American vaccine confidence.
health policy
PA measles outbreak continues to roil pols, policymakers, physicians
The virus's spread has metastasized into a rapidly expanding partisan controversy.
health policy
As PA measles outbreak intensifies, so does the political polarization around it
Following the very public spat between Gov. Josh Shapiro and federal health czar RFK Jr., conservatives and public-health experts are fighting over the veracity of the state’s reported measles deaths
Josh Shapiro
X marks the spat: Shapiro, RFK Jr. needle each other online over measles outbreak
While the governor urged Pennsylvanians to get vaccinated, public health officials expressed alarm over the HHS secretary’s latest anti-vaccine rhetoric
