Dr. Deborah Brix, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator during President Donald Trump’s first term, told Newsmax on Tuesday that the measles outbreak in the U.S. this year is the result of unvaccinated individuals, including adults.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data as of June 24 showed 1,227 confirmed measles cases reported in 36 states. In all of 2024, the CDC said there were just 285 cases in 31 states and the District of Columbia. The cases this year are the most since 2019, when there were 1,274 in 31 states, and the second most since 1992, according to the CDC. Measles has not been endemic, or continuously present, in the U.S. since 2000.
“The last time we saw this level of cases was 2019,” Birx told “American Agenda.” “And it started in a population that was unvaccinated. So, these are unvaccinated populations that start these very broad spread epidemics. So, it was Hasidic Jews in New York City [in 2019]. It was then Mennonites in Texas [this year].
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