Pennsylvania has recorded more than 600 measles cases in 2026, and two Lancaster County infants died in late August.
The federal government’s count lists neither death, and The Conversation reports that the public dispute between Gov. Josh Shapiro and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that followed is making it harder for families to know what to believe.
Katrine L. Wallace, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois Chicago who studies vaccine-preventable illness and health communication, argues that when official health authorities contradict each other openly, the public loses its ability to tell which disagreements rest on evidence and which are driven by politics.
Two Infants, Two Different Findings
Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni reached separate conclusions about each death…