Name: Bill Cassidy: County coroners have confirmed measles in Pennsylvania— and measles as the cause of, of death of 3 people. One more is still being evaluated. And this is in the light of measles being a vaccine-preventable disease. No one should be hospitalized, much less die. By the way, CDC apparently is working on a definition of death by measles.
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Description: County coroners have confirmed measles in Pennsylvania— and measles as the cause of, of death of 3 people. One more is still being evaluated. And this is in the light of measles being a vaccine-preventable disease. No one should be hospitalized, much less die. By the way, CDC apparently is working on a definition of death by measles.

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Bill Cassidy

17:38 - 18:03

“County coroners have confirmed measles in Pennsylvania— and measles as the cause of, of death of 3 people. One more is still being evaluated. And this is in the light of measles being a vaccine-preventable disease. No one should be hospitalized, much less die. By the way, CDC apparently is working on a definition of death by measles.”

Speaker: Bill Cassidy
Timestamp: 17:38 – 18:03
Transcript: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Murkowski): Hearings to examine the nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be Deputy Secretary, Timothy Westlake, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, and Nicole Saphier, of New Jersey, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Community: Alaska News
Captured at: September 16, 2026

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County coroners have confirmed measles in Pennsylvania— and measles as the cause of, of death of 3 people. One more is still being evaluated. And this is in the light of measles being a vaccine-preventable disease. No one should be hospitalized, much less die. By the way, CDC apparently is working on a definition of death by measles.

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