Calls for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign intensified after two unvaccinated people died after contracting measles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, marking the state's first measles-associated deaths in 35 years. Pennsylvania.gov
Pennsylvania has recorded 393 confirmed cases across 28 counties this year, while the latest available US figure stands at 2,777. The deaths, announced on 25 August, have sharpened scrutiny of Kennedy's long history of vaccine scepticism, even as he has recently urged parents to vaccinate their children against measles.