Pennsylvania has now hospitalized 98 people in its measles outbreak, about 17 percent of the state's 577 confirmed cases, against a national hospitalization rate of roughly 8 percent.
That gap is the part of this outbreak that has received the least attention and carries the most immediate meaning for households near it. National case totals describe how far the virus has traveled. The Pennsylvania hospitalization share describes how sick people are getting once it reaches them, and in this outbreak about one patient in six has ended up admitted.
