HuffPost reports that the United States has lost its measles elimination status, awarded in 2000, after a Pan American Health Organization panel found more than 12 months of continuous spread, with over 5,000 cases this year, eight measles-related deaths, and outbreaks in several states. Doctors including Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo and Dr. Nuwan Gunawardhana call the preventable loss a reputational hit and warn it signals declining vaccination rates and weakened trust, urging people to get vaccinated and for the country to change course.