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Pennsylvania Still Lists Two Measles Deaths

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WGAL files Pennsylvania's two measles-associated deaths. Mifflin 57 does not change that denominator. Do not merge county cases into state deaths.

MSM Perspective

WGAL files Shapiro's two. Position 7 already named three unmerged ledgers. Monday prints two, not a merger.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a county rise as already a third state death.

Pennsylvania still listed two measles-associated deaths. [1] WGAL filed Shapiro's two against Kennedy's one. [1] Mifflin 57 does not change that denominator. Print two. Do not merge county cases into state deaths.

Do not promote 57 into a national death count. NCHS remains unprinted on the prior page. Kennedy's one and CDC's none stay unmerged. Leave a later 3,000 to Tuesday if Tuesday owns one. Print two. Print not a third.

Print two. Monday is not a merged death table. A county operating number is still not a state death. Print two as Monday's named Pennsylvania hold. Shapiro's two remain two. Print two as still not NCHS. Print the denominator as still unchanged. Apart ledgers stay apart; Monday's three remain three.

Three ledgers, three authors, zero agreement: Shapiro's two, Kennedy's one, CDC's none. Merging them takes more than arithmetic. Monday holds all three apart.

Arithmetic can't merge authors; only coroners can. Monday's authors stand apart. Arithmetic waits.

Waiting arithmetic waits; Monday waits. Waiting is the update. Coroners merge.

Coroners merge later; Monday holds Shapiro's two, Kennedy's one, and CDC's none apart. Three authors. Zero agreement.

Monday holds Shapiro's two, Kennedy's one, and CDC's none apart. Three authors. Zero agreement.

WGAL still has Shapiro's two measles-associated deaths against Kennedy's coroner one. Mifflin County's 57 cases do not mint a third Pennsylvania death. The CDC's none remains a separate national box. Those three authors have not been averaged.
Monday will not average Shapiro, Kennedy, and CDC. Those three authors have not been averaged. WGAL still has Shapiro's two against Kennedy's one.

Those three authors have not been averaged. Monday will not average Shapiro, Kennedy, and CDC into one death table. Monday's Pennsylvania file still has two deaths, not a merged table.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago

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