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Pennsylvania accuses CDC of understating measles outbreak deaths
Original: Pa. accepts fed help, says CDC is ‘obscuring the seriousness’ of measles outbreak by not counting its deaths
Pennsylvania health officials say they have accepted federal help to respond to a measles outbreak, while accusing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of 'obscuring the seriousness' of the situation because the agency is not counting deaths linked to the outbreak in the state. The dispute over how fatalities are tallied has put state and federal health authorities publicly at odds.
Why now: A state openly criticizing the CDC's death-counting during an active measles outbreak is an unusual public rift between health authorities.
Evidence
- Pa. accepts fed help, says CDC is ‘obscuring the seriousness’ of measles outbreak by not counting its deaths · Inquirer.com
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