Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Pennsylvania just recorded its first measles deaths in 35 years, one of them an infant. At a Lancaster press conference, Governor Josh Shapiro warned that misinformation has real-life consequences. The next day, in Tampa, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put air quotes around the word "casualties" and said his department couldn't confirm the deaths happened. Today on ELLA: Black and Brown Women Disruptors in Healthcare and Beyond, Dr. Haydée Brown and Dr. Sonya Sloan break down what it actually takes to confirm a measles death, what Kennedy said on camera, and why this is the same pattern the country lived through in the 1989–1991 measles resurgence, when underserved communities paid first.
Dr. Haydée Brown writes every Thursday about the systems underneath the news at https://drhaydeebrown.substack.com.
Dr. Sonya Sloan writes at sonyasloanmd.substack.com
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Pennsylvania just recorded its first measles deaths in 35 years, one of them an infant. At a Lancaster press conference, Governor Josh Shapiro warned that misinformation has real-life consequences. The next day, in Tampa, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put air quotes around the word "casualties" and said his department couldn't confirm the deaths happened. Today on ELLA: Black and Brown Women Disruptors in Healthcare and Beyond, Dr. Haydée Brown and Dr. Sonya Sloan break down what it actually takes to confirm a measles death, what Kennedy said on camera, and why this is the same pattern the country lived through in the 1989–1991 measles resurgence, when underserved communities paid first.
Dr. Haydée Brown writes every Thursday about the systems underneath the news at https://drhaydeebrown.substack.com.
Dr. Sonya Sloan writes at sonyasloanmd.substack.com
Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube
Visit meidasplus.com for more!
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