U.S. may lose its measles elimination status after cases doubled in a year
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[0:00] All
[0:00] >> [music]
[0:05] >> right, welcome back everyone. An
[0:06] international panel is meeting this week
[0:08] to decide whether the US should lose its
[0:11] designation of eliminating the measles.
[0:13] A Johns Hopkins tracker reports 5,400 US
[0:17] measles cases so far this year. That's
[0:19] more than twice as many cases in all of
[0:22] 2025. The CDC's director expects a
[0:25] decision on this elimination status by
[0:27] early next week. CBS News medical
[0:29] correspondent Dr. Selene Gounder, who is
[0:31] also the editor at large for public
[0:33] health at KFF Health News, joins us now
[0:35] to discuss this reluctantly,
[0:37] unfortunately, because you warned us a
[0:40] while ago that this very likely thing
[0:42] could happen. What does the the the loss
[0:44] of this status really mean?
[0:45] >> This is a huge setback, Errol.