The Return of a Killer: Mapping The Surge In Measles Caused By RFK Jr.’s Chaos At The CDC

• RFK Jr. Wasn’t Worried About South Carolina’s Measles Outbreak. It’s Now Enormous. - Mother Jones
• South Carolina measles outbreak reaches 789 cases, surpassing Texas. The ongoing outbreak is the largest since measles was eliminated in the country 26 years ago. - NBC News

America has a historic public health crisis as measles cases reach levels not seen in over 30 years. Under Trump's HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC recently overhauled of the childhood immunization schedule, reducing the number of universally recommended vaccines... the ongoing surge has sickened over 2,400 people since early 2025 and resulted in at least three deaths. Large-scale outbreaks in South Carolina (789 cases) and Texas (762 cases) have pushed the nation to the brink..."

Where are the measles cases? Who are the elected reps in the area? Which of them voted to confirm RFK Jr. as Health Secretary? How many people died from COVID in that area? Check this StoryMap.

Deadly Measles Outbreak

RFK Jr. creates chaos at CDC

Measles is extremely contagious: Each infected person spreads the disease to 20 more on average, if no one is immune. That means 95% of the population must be vaccinated to contain it, but coverage is already believed to be below that and is expected to drop further. Before measles vaccines arrived in 1963, there were 3 million cases a year in the US, resulting in 48,000 hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths — thanks to vaccines, measles was eliminated by 2000. But now, “our country is on a tipping point for measles to once again become a common household disease,” one scientist said. - Semafor

Children are dying

Texas measles outbreak hits 422 cases - ABC News
Kennedy Fires Thousands Across Health Agencies - Forbes
Thousands of federal health workers are losing their jobs - The Verge

A child who wasn't vaccinated died in a  measles outbreak in rural West Texas , the first U.S. death from the highly contagious - but preventable respiratory disease since 2015. The school-aged child had been hospitalized and died amid the widespread outbreak, Texas' largest in  nearly 30 years . Since it began last month, a rash of 124 cases has erupted across nine counties. -  MSN

TakeAway: Call your elected rep to restore funding for the CDC and bring back medical experts not political hacks to manage healthcare.

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