{"id":79009,"date":"2026-09-22T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/why-the-cdc-is-excluding-measles-deaths-in-pennsylvania-even-as-outbreak-appears-to-be-accelerating\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T06:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:54:54","slug":"why-the-cdc-is-excluding-measles-deaths-in-pennsylvania-even-as-outbreak-appears-to-be-accelerating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/why-the-cdc-is-excluding-measles-deaths-in-pennsylvania-even-as-outbreak-appears-to-be-accelerating\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be \u2018accelerating\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are \u2018seeing new forms\u2019 of disease<\/p>\n<p>The US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its measles dashboard on Friday \u2013 but it\u2019s still not counting four measles deaths in Pennsylvania, where the outbreak appears to be accelerating and cases are appearing in ways providers have never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats-energycommerce.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/democrats-energycommerce.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2026.9.14-letter-to-cdc-dir-schwartz-on-measles.pdf\">requested<\/a> an \u201cimmediate briefing\u201d on the decision to change how measles deaths are reported as cases continue to rise throughout the United States, reaching levels not seen in decades. A possible measles exposure was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/measles-exposure-childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia-chop-nicu\/4465182\/\">reported<\/a> in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/22\/cdc-pennsylvania-measles-death-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refuses to count four measles deaths in the state though doctors are \u2018seeing new forms\u2019 of disease The US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its measles dashboard on Friday \u2013 but it\u2019s still not counting four measles deaths in Pennsylvania, where the outbreak appears to be &#8230; <a title=\"Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be \u2018accelerating\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/why-the-cdc-is-excluding-measles-deaths-in-pennsylvania-even-as-outbreak-appears-to-be-accelerating\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be \u2018accelerating\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}