The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not linked outbreaks of measles across different states, despite a new report this week asserting otherwise, acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill said on Nov. 18.
“We do not have epidemiological evidence linking the two chains of measles transmission,” O’Neill wrote on X. “On the contrary, preliminary genomic analysis suggests the Utah and Arizona cases are not directly linked to Texas.”
The New York Times reported earlier in the week that the CDC had for the first time linked the outbreak of measles that started in Texas in January, and ended in August, to ongoing outbreaks in Utah and Arizona….