{"id":272343,"date":"2026-08-26T04:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272343\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:48:26","slug":"two-people-have-died-of-measles-in-pennsylvania-marking-first-u-s-deaths-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272343\/","title":{"rendered":"Two People Have Died of Measles in Pennsylvania, Marking First U.S. Deaths This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cTogether, there could be a possibility they\u2019re quite lethal,\u201d Trump said of the combined shot, which has been in use for more than 50 years and has a strong safety and efficacy record.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Doctors and vaccine scientists said Trump\u2019s executive order and comments were unscientific and misleading. &#8220;As measles cases reach a 35-year high in the U.S. and with cold and flu season quickly approaching, [the] executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous,\u201d Dr. Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aap.org\/en\/news-room\/news-releases\/aap\/2026\/aap-statement-in-response-to-executive-order-on-vaccines\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a> at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">An additional early dose of the vaccine can also be given to children aged 6 to 11 months under some circumstances, says Dr. Elizabeth Murray, a pediatric emergency medicine physician in Rochester, N.Y. \u201cWith the ongoing measles outbreak, make sure your children are immunized. If your child is under age 1, talk to your doctor. Depending on how much measles is circulating where you live, your doctor may recommend an earlier dose,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTogether, there could be a possibility they\u2019re quite lethal,\u201d Trump said of the combined shot, which has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4913,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-272343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-measles","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}