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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our country continues to backslide under Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/well/measles-elimination-status-us.html

Meeting on U.S. Measles Status Is Delayed Until November
The decision to revoke the country’s elimination status would now likely come after the U.S. midterm elections, experts noted.

A highly anticipated meeting to review the United States’ measles elimination status has been postponed until November.

An international panel of experts had invited the United States to a meeting in April to determine whether the ongoing spread of measles would cost the country its status, a designation granted to nations that have not had continuous spread of measles for more than a year.

But U.S. health officials asked the panel, convened by the Pan American Health Organization, to delay the review until the organization’s annual meeting in November, said Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services. He said the agency needed more time to analyze its measles data.

Losing measles elimination status would mark a grim and embarrassing moment for the nation’s public health: The United States achieved elimination status in 2000 after a nearly 40-year campaign to promote the vaccine, and has maintained that status every year since.[/quote]

Remember when Trump thought if you didn't test for Covid, you didn't have it?[/quote]

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