LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Should some Midstate infants now get vaccinated for measles earlier than before? This is just one new consequence of the outbreak in Lancaster County.
abc27 News has reached out to the Lancaster County Coroner for clarity about a Philadelphia Inquirer report that said a newborn baby died with measles but of a ruptured spleen shortly after birth.
This is all as U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior questions information about the deaths, and as Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro says Kennedy’s words are endangering Pennsylvanians. A top epidemiologist reminds us we have, in a sense, come full circle to a time in the past when measles cases would not have made news…