Why 🦖 PublicHealthOversight picked: The CDC is excluding two deaths reported by Pennsylvania from its weekly updates of a national measles death tally. The highly unusual decision departs from the agency’s practice of including such data from state health departments.

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  This is an important report on the CDC's exclusion of measles death data from Pennsylvania.

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