Media: Do they read their own stories?
“As of Thursday, July 23, approximately 2,318 measles cases from 35 separate outbreaks have reached 43 states and Washington, D.C., since the beginning of 2026, according to the CDC, resulting in at least 151 hospitalizations.”
That is, 6.5% were hospitalized but down a little further in the story:
Additionally, 1 in 5 of those people end up hospitalized, according to the CDC.
Which would be 20%. So which is it? An obvious discrepancy in the report.
Declining protections have also been attributed to the growing anti-vaccine movement, which was bolstered by the confirmation of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. In addition to making anti-vaccine comments, Kennedy also downplayed pediatric deaths related to measles and touted false cures and preventives, such as the use of vitamin A.
Leaves our the public health false claims of 95% effectiveness of the Covid vaccine, which seems to have started the vaccine reluctancy.
From 2019 onward, I had annual influenza vaccinations, hepatitis vaccination (3 shots), shingles vaccination (2), MMR (I previously had measles and mumps but not rubella, as a child in the 1960s), DTaP (tetanus booster), 3 Covid vaccinations (and then had Covid twice – for each shot I experienced a fever of up to 101.5 for 4 days and was bedridden). As a child I had smallpox and polio vaccinations.