{"id":221,"date":"2026-09-03T22:13:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/cdc-retains-measles-death-data-despite-rfk-jr-deletion-order\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:13:50","slug":"cdc-retains-measles-death-data-despite-rfk-jr-deletion-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/cdc-retains-measles-death-data-despite-rfk-jr-deletion-order\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Retains Measles Death Data Despite RFK Jr. Deletion Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to internally record two measles fatalities that were removed from its public data following a directive from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to reports released today.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported early today that Kennedy instructed CDC Director Erica Schwartz to remove the deaths from the agency&#8217;s website. Internal sources indicated that CDC staff had already reviewed the case information and concurred with the classification of the deaths as measles-related. Despite this assessment, Schwartz proceeded with the deletion without objection.<\/p>\n<p>The two individuals who died were a newborn and a child, as reported by health officials in Pennsylvania last week. Their deaths were temporarily added to and then removed from the CDC website within hours on August 30.<\/p>\n<p>The deletions come amidst a significant ongoing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania, which has resulted in 540 confirmed cases to date, including 119 new infections in the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports reveal RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to delete two measles deaths, but the agency continues to track them internally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[593,592,595,342,594,116],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-cdc","tag-measles","tag-pennsylvania","tag-public-health","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}