🧵 Saga file #15
Pennsylvania measles outbreak
Oct 5, 6 PM ET to Oct 14, 6 PM ET
- 3parts so far
- 27outlets carried a part
- 🫏9 · 8 · 9🐘left · center · right
- 9 daysrunning so far
- 5 minof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 5, 6 PM ET · on the front pages 1.8 daysPennsylvania reports over 1,000 measles cases
- Oct 6, 1 AM ET · on the front pages 2.2 daysNew York governor declares state of emergency over measles outbreak
- Oct 12, 10 PM ET · on the front pages 1.8 daysPennsylvania reports sixth measles-related death
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Pennsylvania reports over 1,000 measles cases
Oct 5, 6 PM ET · 14 outlets · on the front pages 1.8 days
“Pennsylvania nears 1,000 measles cases, state health department reports” first: The Hill
· 📻 1 newscast
2. New York governor declares state of emergency over measles outbreak
Oct 6, 1 AM ET · 15 outlets · on the front pages 2.2 days
“New York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak” first: Bloomberg
📺 CNN 2 min
3. Pennsylvania reports sixth measles-related death
Oct 12, 10 PM ET · 10 outlets · on the front pages 1.8 days
“Sixth person who had measles has died in Pennsylvania, local coroner says” first: The Washington Post
📺 CNN 3 min
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
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🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.