On August 4, I wrote about how the effort to scare Americans about the threat of measles was running up against the fact that nobody in the country has died from the infection this year. Without measles deaths, how are the measles scare promoters going to build up enough fear in parents so they load their children up with measles and other shots instead of continuing to increasingly opt out?
How about just making up some measles deaths? It looks like that may be just the course taken in an announcement last week by Pennsylvania’s shots-pushing Governor Josh Shapiro.
Brenda Baletti reported the details in a Thursday Children’s Health Defense article. Her in-depth article begins with briefly laying out the situation as follows:
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro stood in Lancaster County on Tuesday and announced two ‘measles-associated deaths’ — the first the commonwealth has reported in 35 years — calling them ‘preventable’ and urging residents to get vaccinated.
Within a day, the county’s own coroner publicly disputed the state’s characterization.
On Tuesday, a Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) press release reported two measles-associated deaths in unvaccinated Lancaster County residents. The department initially withheld the individuals’ ages, medical circumstances and immediate causes of death, citing privacy concerns.
On Wednesday, Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons said on X that the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office had recorded zero deaths caused by measles — only one death of a person who tested positive for measles.
The coroner, Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that one of the deaths involved a newborn who died shortly after birth from a lacerated spleen. Measles antibodies were present in postmortem testing, but Diamantoni said the death was not caused by measles.
Continue reading Baletti’s article here.
Reprinted with permission from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.