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🗞️ Story file #129

New York governor declares state of emergency over measles outbreak

Oct 6, 1 AM ET to Oct 8, 7 AM ET

15outlets carried it
🫏5 · 4 · 6🐘left · center · right
2.2 dayson the front pages
15front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
2 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 6, 1 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Epoch Times
Oct 6, 4 PM ETpeak: on 15 front pages
Oct 8, 1 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 1 AM to Oct 8, 7 AM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (NBC News)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Confront”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 state disaster

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (3 wordings): “NY Declares Statewide Emergency to ‘Confront’ Measles Outbreak” → “New York Declares Statewide Emergency to ‘Confront’ Measles Outbreak”

Every outlet's first headline (15), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian New York governor declares state of emergency after spike in measles cases Oct 6, 10 AM ET
ABC News New York declares state disaster emergency over measles. Here's what that means Oct 6, 4 PM ET
NBC News New York declares first U.S. measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge Oct 6, 6 AM ET
New York Times Hochul Declares a Measles Emergency as Cases Rise in Rural New York Oct 5, 10 PM ET
The Independent Measles outbreak mapped: New York declares state of emergency after virus wreaks havoc in Pennsylvania Oct 6, 1 PM ET
Bloomberg New York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak Oct 5, 4 PM ET
News Nation New York declares measles emergency amid outbreak Oct 6, 12 PM ET
Reuters New York declares first US measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge Oct 5, 7 PM ET
Scripps News Health Measles surge triggers state of emergency in New York Justin Boggs Oct 6, 9 AM ET
The Epoch Times New York Declares State Disaster Emergency Amid Measles Outbreak Oct 6, 1 AM ET
Breitbart NY Declares Statewide Emergency to ‘Confront’ Measles Outbreak Oct 6, 1 PM ET
Fox News New York declares measles disaster emergency as cases surge in Pennsylvania Oct 6, 8 AM ET
IJR New York Declares Emergency Amid 108 Measles Cases Oct 5, 7 PM ET
New York Post NY declares state disaster emergency over measles outbreak in rural communities Oct 5, 8 PM ET
The Daily Caller Democrat Governor Declares State Of Emergency After About 100 Measles Cases Oct 6, 4 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN2 min

MEASLES OUTBREAK IN PA NOW LARGEST IN U.S. IN 30+ YEARS CNN, 2 min

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: New York State Kathy Hochul Measles outbreak

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Pennsylvania measles outbreak

Pennsylvania reports over 1,000 measles cases
Oct 5, 6 PM ET
New York governor declares state of emergency over measles outbreak (this story)
Oct 6, 1 AM ET
Pennsylvania reports sixth measles-related death
Oct 12, 10 PM ET