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The United States Has Confirmed Over Two Thousand One Hundred Measles Cases In Forty-One Jurisdictions In 2026 Alone, With Thirty Outbreaks, On Pace To Exceed Last Year’s Thirty-Four-Year Record; The Country Has Held ‘Measles Elimination’ Status Since The Year Two Thousand; That Status Is Under Review; The Review, Originally Set For April, Has Been Pushed To November, Which Is When The Midterm Elections Are; Public Messaging Says The Country ‘May Lose’ The Status; One Epidemiologist Wrote That If It Walks Like A Duck And Quacks Like A Duck, You Stop Debating Taxonomy; Yolanda Has Read The Definition; Yolanda Would Like To Discuss The Conditional Tense
As of late June 2026, the United States has confirmed more than 2,100 measles cases across 41 jurisdictions…