This paper has been printing U.S. measles ledgers as unmerged through the catch-up week. [1] Saturday has no merged CDC book in fetched copy. Unmerged is not gone. A quiet health desk is not a closed outbreak. Print unmerged. Do not print cleared. No merged national measles book is in Saturday's CDC copy. A missing merge is filed as missing, not imagined.

Saturday recap that treats measles as gone is a feed, not a CDC merge.
Print unmerged. Saturday is not a CDC merge.
Unmerged measles ledgers remain unmerged on this desk.
Saturday is not a closed outbreak.
The ledger still does not merge on this desk.

Mifflin counts cases; Pennsylvania certifies deaths. Saturday merges neither.
A quiet CDC is not a clearance.
Outbreak ledgers diverge because counties count cases while states certify deaths. Saturday prints both without merging. Certification takes coroners, labs, and time.

Certification takes coroners, labs, and time; Saturday has none of the three in hand. The gap is structural, not conspiratorial.

Structural gaps stay unmerged; Saturday prints Mifflin cases and Pennsylvania deaths apart. A quiet CDC is not a clearance. Coroners still hold the merge.

Case logs and death certificates still live in different offices. Mifflin and Harrisburg have not been reconciled here. The CDC published no merged national book on Saturday. Treating quiet as a vanished outbreak would be a feed.
Saturday added no merged national book. Quiet is not a vanished outbreak. Three columns stay three columns.

Saturday added no merged national book. Quiet is not a vanished outbreak. Saturday's three columns stay unmerged.

Three columns stay three columns. Saturday added no merged national book. Saturday's three columns stay unmerged.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago