Making Measles Great Again: the Reunion Tour After 26 Years!

On this episode, Alex breaks down how South Carolina’s explosive measles outbreak — now the largest in the U.S. since the disease was declared eliminated — has overtaken last year’s Texas surge, highlighting deep divides over vaccination policy and public health response. With chains of transmission persisting beyond a year and multiple large outbreaks across states, the United States has now lost its measles elimination status and is confronting the real possibility that measles could become endemic again if policy choices don’t change.