Another child has died of measles, health officials in New York announced Monday — the state's first measles death in more than 30 years and the seventh reported in the US in 2026, six of them in Pennsylvania's outbreak of over 1,430 cases. Ars Technica's report adds that the Washington Post says CDC scientists have been blocked from issuing an urgent alert on measles risks in pregnancy, while the agency, under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has reported only three of the seven deaths and changed how it counts them. Governor Kathy Hochul ties the child's death to Kennedy's anti-vaccine activism, and the article links the surge — more than 4,850 cases across 47 states, the worst since 1991 — to slipping vaccination rates.