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'FactPost' Claims Pennsylvania Has Reported Four Measles Deaths This Year; Shapiro Piles on JFK Jr.

Brett T.
Brett T.  |  10:00 PM on September 16, 2026

FactPost, as you know, is the new home of the people who used to run KamalaHQ. It says in its bio that its job is posting facts, but it does that as well as it did in getting Kamala Harris elected president. FactPost is now reporting that a fourth measles death has been recorded in Pennsylvania, over a photo of Health and Human Services Secretary John F. Kennedy Jr., who is obviously to blame for telling parents not to vaccinate their kids.

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It's important here to remember the COVID-19 pandemic, when deaths were counted as "COVID-related." You ran your motorcycle into a tree, and the autopsy showed you were infected with the COVID virus at the time? Time to update the COVID death count. It's important to remember, because now we're not talking about measles deaths; we're talking about "measles-associated" deaths.

As we reported, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro ran to the microphone and blamed JFK when there were two measles deaths. One was a newborn who was found to have died of a ruptured spleen. Shapiro doubled down anyway, knowing it was a lie, saying it didn't serve "the interest of public health … for me to get into a back and forth about conspiracy theories showing up online." Shapiro pounced again when there was an infant who died of measles in Amish country. Actually, the coroner found the infant was born with a rare genetic condition that is not generally found outside the Amish community: Amish lethal microcephaly. Most babies with that condition live only four to six months, he said. In both cases, neither infant would have received the measles vaccine yet anyway, which isn't recommended until 15 months.

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb decided to pass along FactPost's facts:

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Shapiro, who also has his eye on the presidency in 2028, decided to exploit the "measles-associated" deaths as well.

The post continues:

… has seen in 35 years. These are tragedies, and four families are grieving. 

Pennsylvania is experiencing the worst measles outbreak in the country. To date, we have 693 recorded cases of measles in 38 of our 67 counties. This disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000 — yet decades later, we are seeing it surge due to lower vaccination rates.

This serious situation continues to be made worse by RFK Jr. playing games with public health and safety. It's long past time for @SecKennedy to stop stoking vaccine skepticism and misinformation and compromising the serious mission of the nation’s public health agencies. It is also deeply concerning to learn that the Secretary personally intervened in an otherwise administrative process to direct the CDC to not report these Pennsylvania deaths, presumably because it doesn’t fit his phony narrative. 

Measles is preventable. I continue to urge all Pennsylvanians to speak with your trusted health care provider and get the best possible information to protect yourself and your family against this deadly disease.

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You don't vaccinate newborns, idiot.

RFK once again fired back:

The post continues:

… have offered the Governor CDC Epi-Aid, which would put CDC epidemiologists on the ground to help the state respond. Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, New Mexico, and Wisconsin requested Epi-Aids and worked alongside CDC teams to help bring their outbreaks rapidly and successfully under control.

Governor Shapiro’s claim that I directed CDC to suppress Pennsylvania deaths is false. CDC is applying a consistent national standard rather than allowing politicians to decide which deaths appear in federal mortality statistics. CDC will report measles-caused deaths when the National Center for Health Statistics reports measles as the underlying cause based on death record information submitted by the states.

CDC’s MMR recommendation remains unchanged. I have repeatedly stated that MMR vaccination is the most effective way to prevent measles infection.

Pennsylvanians deserve accurate, evidence-based public health information—not political grandstanding.

Well, political grandstanding is all it's going to get.

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Every time an infant dies a "measles-associated" death in Pennsylvania, Shapiro gets closer to becoming president. He can't wait for the next one.

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