🗞️ Story file #117
Pennsylvania reports over 1,000 measles cases
Oct 5, 6 PM ET to Oct 7, 2 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 14outlets carried it
- 🫏5 · 5 · 3🐘left · center · right
- 1.8 dayson the front pages
- 13front pages at once, at its peak
- 1radio newscast
- 14people retold it online
- 1 of 3parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 5, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
- Oct 6, 5 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 6, 7 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
- Oct 7, 4 AM ETretold online by 14 people
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Drudge Report Political Wire
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 1 000
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Largest in Decades” → “Penn. Measles Outbreak Largest in Decades”
- The Hill (2 wordings): “Pennsylvania nears 1,000 measles cases, state health department reports” → “Pennsylvania measles cases pass 1K mark amid outbreak”
Every outlet's first headline (14), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Pennsylvania's Measles Outbreak Is The Largest In US Since 1991 Oct 5, 8 PM ET
The Guardian
Pennsylvania faces largest measles outbreak in decades as case count rises to 1,000 Oct 5, 6 PM ET
ABC News
Measles cases surpass 1,000 in Pennsylvania amid state's largest outbreak in decades Oct 5, 6 PM ET
NBC News
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the country’s largest in three decades Oct 5, 6 PM ET- The Week Morning Report US measles infections hit decades-old highs Oct 6, 7 PM ET
Bloomberg
New Measles Deaths Send US Total to the Highest in Decades Oct 6, 12 PM ET
Chicago Tribune
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US Oct 5, 4 PM ET
Straight Arrow News
Pennsylvania measles outbreak is now the largest the US has seen in decades Oct 6, 2 PM ET
The Hill
Pennsylvania nears 1,000 measles cases, state health department reports Oct 4, 9 AM ET
WSJ
Measles Outbreak in Pennsylvania Is Now the Biggest in U.S. in 35 Years Oct 7, 2 PM ET
Just the News
Pennsylvania reports 1,000-plus measles cases, largest state outbreak in three decades Oct 6, 9 AM ET
The Washington Times
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S. Oct 5, 6 PM ET
Newsmax
Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Largest in Decades Oct 5, 5 PM ET
The 19th
What Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak could mean for pregnancy care across America Oct 6, 6 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 6, 5:10 AM ET: story 5 of 6
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- Pennsylvania is experiencing a large measles outbreak that has surpassed 1,000 confirmed cases, marking the largest outbreak in the U.S. in over three decades. Oct 7: told by 14 people
🧩 Revenant 🧩 Outbreak
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Pennsylvania
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Pennsylvania measles outbreak
Pennsylvania reports over 1,000 measles cases (this story)
Oct 5, 6 PM ET
New York governor declares state of emergency over measles outbreak
Oct 6, 1 AM ET
Pennsylvania reports sixth measles-related death
Oct 12, 10 PM ET