A New York Times article by Teddy Rosenbluth reports that the Pan American Health Organization's meeting to review the United States' measles elimination status — held continuously since 2000 — has been postponed until November, with H.H.S. spokesman Andrew Nixon saying U.S. officials requested the delay to finish analyzing data from 10 outbreaks in 2025. Some public health experts and Dr. Walter Orenstein find the timing, which pushes a likely loss of the status past the midterm elections, awfully coincidental, though retired microbiologist Paul Rota says the extra time might be warranted as a small team also battles a South Carolina outbreak that has sickened 985 people.