Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak

Pennsylvania is approaching 500 measles cases and has already seen 87 hospitalizations, yet public officials are arguing over whether two measles-associated deaths should count. At the center is a Lancaster County family whose pregnant mother became seriously ill with measles and whose newborn son died after birth with measles infection in his lungs and a ruptured spleen. This is the same playbook we saw during COVID: minimize the disease, question the vaccine, then explain away the complications. Meanwhile, measles keeps spreading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.drsimpson.com/subscribe