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Bill Cassidy

125:20 - 125:47

“We've had 4 measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania, and 3 of which have been declared by the coroner to be caused by measles. The CDC has not updated their website.”
Speaker
Bill Cassidy
Timestamp
125:20 – 125:47
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.
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Alaska News
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September 16, 2026

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We've had 4 measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania, and 3 of which have been declared by the coroner to be caused by measles. The CDC has not updated their website. I've spoken to Dr. Schwartz. She says, she says that we're trying to come up with a definition of how measles causes death. But they're never going to have more information than a coroner saying this person died from measles.

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