Reuters and Inside Medicine report that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed CDC director Erica Schwartz to delete two measles deaths—a newborn and a child in Pennsylvania—from the agency's public data, which she did without objection despite staff having already confirmed the deaths were measles-related. Even so, an internal CDC system called One CDC Data Platform, accessible to health officials nationwide, still records both deaths.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-03
Pennsylvania health officials reported a newborn and a child died of measles, but the CDC removed these two deaths from its national measles surveillance data over the weekend after initially including them. New CDC director Erica Schwartz reportedly ordered the change, adding a disclaimer stating it's unclear whether measles caused or contributed to the deaths.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-01
Pennsylvania health officials confirmed two unvaccinated residents of Lancaster County died after contracting measles, marking the first US measles deaths this year. The state has logged 393 cases in 2026, trailing only Utah and South Carolina, with nearly 20 percent of infected patients hospitalized. Governor Josh Shapiro called the outbreak a preventable but growing crisis.
wired.com
· 2026-08-25
Two unvaccinated residents of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania died from measles, state health officials confirmed, marking the state's first measles deaths in 35 years and the first in the US in 2026. The deaths are part of 393 confirmed cases across 28 Pennsylvania counties this year, as the CDC reports at least 2,777 measles cases nationwide, the highest count since 1991.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-08-25
A technical breakdown explains why standard periodic MySQL-to-warehouse syncs, which query and diff table snapshots on a schedule, can silently miss deleted rows and intermediate row states between runs while also straining production databases. It contrasts this with Change Data Capture, which reads MySQL's binary log directly to capture every insert, update, and delete in order with complete row data, rather than inferring changes from comparisons.
erathos.com
· 2026-08-25
The CDC has confirmed a growing multistate outbreak tied to alfalfa sprouts, with dozens of illnesses reported across 15 states and four people hospitalized. Michigan and Wisconsin have recorded the highest case counts, and the update comes just days after a recall of multiple alfalfa sprout products linked to the contamination.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-25
The Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a Request for Information exploring changes to how vaccines are classified as routine, risk-based, or subject to shared clinical decision-making. No formal rule changes have been made yet, but the 10-page document invites public comment through September 20 on potential new labels that could sound more conditional than current designations.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-08-24
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