PA Gov. Josh Shapiro and State Health Officials Caught Pushing Fake Measles Death Narrative in Lancaster County — Officials Refuse to Cooperate as County Coroner Confirms ZERO Deaths FROM Measles

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The mainstream media and leftist government bureaucrats are at it again, pushing panic, fear, and unverified headlines to control the public narrative, only to get caught red-handed when local officials demand basic transparency.

During a high-profile press conference on Tuesay, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, alongside state health officials and Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, announced that two “measles-associated deaths” occurred in Lancaster County.

The legacy media immediately ran with the headlines. Two people died FROM measles. Case closed. Get the shot. Blame the unvaccinated. Blame RFK Jr.

There’s just one major problem: Local authorities have ZERO record of these alleged deaths.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called out the massive discrepancies and the state’s sudden refusal to share basic factual data.

Kennedy said Shapiro accused him of promoting “conspiracy theories” after Kennedy noted that some Americans have religious objections to MMR because of fetal-cell substrate used in manufacturing.

Shapiro reportedly snapped that there is “no fetal tissue in the MMR.” Kennedy responded that Shapiro could not produce a single example of HHS “misinformation” when asked, yet repeated the smear on camera anyway, while ignoring the fact that Pennsylvania’s own drop in vaccination rates largely occurred during the Biden years, a fact Shapiro reportedly admitted in a private call with RFK Jr.

RFK Jr.: “We are trying to get information about those two casualties. According to a statement that was released by the Lancaster County Commissioner today, they cannot find any measles deaths in Lancaster County, and they complain that the governor will not give them that information.

CDC tried to get that information from the governor yesterday, and the state is refusing to cooperate. We’re doing a better job than any country in the world at controlling the measles outbreak. This is a worldwide epidemic, and it’s happening because of the lockdowns, because many kids did not get vaccinated during the lockdowns.

Then you had a dramatic diminishment of public faith in the regulatory agencies during the COVID period because of government overreaching, because of the gaslighting and the manipulation.

So, even in my discussion with Governor Shapiro yesterday, he said to me, “Well, we’ve seen this big drop in vaccination rates in the state from 97 to 92.3.” He admitted on the phone that it all happened during the Biden administration.

Since I’ve been in office, since President Trump’s been in office, there’s been a one-tenth of 1% diminishment. We are actually restoring faith in the public health agencies so people will take our advice. And our advice is that people should get the measles vaccination.

There are certain communities and certain religious communities that don’t—won’t do that, and we want to take care of those kids as well.

So, Mexico has 11 times the amount of measles cases as we do. Canada has four times the amount of measles cases. Britain has two times.

Every place there’s been a measles outbreak, I’ve sent the CDC in to cooperate with the state health agencies, and we’ve brought it to an end overnight. The only state that won’t cooperate with us is Pennsylvania, and we can’t get any information.

The press is all covering this as if those measles deaths actually happened, but nobody’s doing the sort of—the little bit of critical inquiry to find out.

We’re trying to figure out, you know, who those deaths were and whether they actually happened, and we can’t figure that out yet.”

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Then a locally elected official did the work the press would not.

Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons, a former prosecutor, went to the people who actually handle death investigations.

Any death from a communicable disease is required by law to be reported to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office. Parsons spoke at length with senior staff and with Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni. Their answer: zero measles deaths in Lancaster County. They have one death of a person who died WITH measles, but not FROM measles. They know nothing about a second death.

Local reporting independently confirmed the same gap. Diamantoni said “no measles deaths were handled by our office,” while the office was investigating an infant who tested positive for measles and died of a ruptured spleen. Officials still will not say whether that infant is one of the two cases Shapiro put on national television.

Parsons noted that outreach to Penn Medicine LGH, the Governor’s office, and local public safety directors yielded absolute silence or a total lack of answers.

Parsons wrote:

“Measles questions.

Let’s be clear- when the Governor comes into our county and holds a press conference with PA Department of Health and Penn Medicine Lancaster general Health and states there were two “measles-associated deaths” here, with the underlying assertion that the two people died FROM measles, and they are the first deaths from measles in 35 years, and that announcement sets off numerous media reports uncritically repeating that two people died FROM measles in Lancaster County, and Lancaster County elected officials then get questions about this – it is totally fair for me to ask for relevant information on those deaths.

Asking questions is not “pro-measles.”

Asking for information that should have been provided at the press conference is not “anti-science.”

It is simply wanting the whole story for my constituents.

When officials who hold a big press conference and make big headlines – those officials owe us more than the headlines. They owe us the whole truth. They owe us accurate information by which the people of Lancaster County can make decisions about their health and safety.

It has been about 24 hours since the press conference. We do not have any answers. Of course journalists should also be asking these questions rather than uncritically repeating something.

Any deaths from measles are required by law to be reported to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office. I have spoken at length with both a senior staff member from that office and the Coroner himself. They currently have zero measles deaths in Lancaster County. They have one death of a person who died WITH measles, but not from measles. We do not know if the state is counting that one. Nor do we know anything about the other death that officials reported yesterday.

Is there an unlikely scenario where a patient from here got measles and sought care outside of Lancaster County and died there and it was reported to another county coroner? Yes. I am open to that or other unlikely possibilities. But if one of these unlikely scenarios is the case, the people holding the press conference had, and currently have, a responsibility to provide that information.

The law DOES allow release of more information. Demographic information that does not identify the patient may be released.

I reached out to Penn Medicine LGH. No response.

I reached out the Governor’s office. No response.

I talked with our Lancaster County Department of Public Safety Director. He has no additional information from the state.

I asked questions this morning at our Board of Commissioners meeting of Commissioner Alice Yoder who was at the press conference yesterday and is a former official at Penn Medicine LGH. She did not have any answers. (This exchange is on video and will be available later today.)

So as of right now, we have ZERO information that corroborates the idea that there were two measles deaths in Lancaster County. Again, everything stated could be accurate. But no one in authority has been able to say that, nor have they even tried to say it.

To me it is a big deal if the Governor comes in and gives a press conference and then no one can or will identify simple details around what was stated and what then generated major news stories.

Transparency is owed to the people.

It is incumbent on those who held the press conference to clear this up.

Immediately.”

Measles questions.

— Commissioner Josh Parsons (@CommissionerJP) August 26, 2026

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