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Why the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’

11 publications, in the order they reported. The story spread over 328 hours 32 minutes. Words in highlight are ones the first headline did not use. All top stories · On NewsMarkets

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Publications over time

11:00 UTC03:32 UTC11 publications
Publications in order of reporting
#Time (UTC)After the firstPublicationHeadline
1firstThe GuardianWhy the CDC is excluding measles deaths in Pennsylvania even as outbreak appears to be ‘accelerating’ by Melody Schreiber
2+8 hours 30 minutesMedPage TodayCDC, Epidemiologists Work on Definition for Measles Deaths
3+45 hours 29 minutesSTAT (paywall)Opinion: Measles almost killed me. Now I’m a doctor — and I’m scared of what’s happening by Jewel Mullen
4+56 hours 48 minutesThe HillCDC adds 1 measles death to U.S. tracker, while PA reports disease killed 4 by Sarah Davis
5+128 hours 16 minutesThe New York Times (limited free articles)Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Grows to Nearly 900 Cases by Johnny Diaz
6+172 hours 8 minutesAl JazeeraCDC reports two measles deaths in US as cases hit 35-year high
7+202 hours 37 minutesArs TechnicaFifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deaths by Beth Mole
8+321 hours 25 minutesSky NewsState of emergency declared in New York as measle cases rise
9+322 hours 22 minutesFrance 24New York declares statewide disaster emergency as measles cases rise by FRANCE 24
10+326 hours 34 minutesDeutsche WelleMeasles cases are spreading in the US this year, with over 1,000 infections reported in Pennsylvania
11+328 hours 32 minutesTimes of IndiaNew York declares disaster emergency over measles, 108 cases reported by PRISHA PATNAIK

Who covered it, by audience

8 of 11 publications on this story have an audience score.

Publications by the political lean of their audience
Audience leans Democratic (5)Mixed audience (2)Audience leans Republican (1)

Audience lean comes from Robertson, R. E., Jiang, S., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Lazer, D., and Wilson, C. (2018), Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2(CSCW), article 148, used with the authors' permission. The score shows which party's registered voters, on Twitter, shared an outlet's links more. It is not a rating of the outlet's own slant, and it dates from 2018. See how we use it.