RFK Jr. praised Lancaster County’s low vaccine rate in 2021. Now, 2 people are dead from measles.

There have been 393 confirmed cases of measles in Pennsylvania this year and 70 people have been hospitalized from the viral disease.

Two people in Pennsylvania have died from measles this week as the highly contagious virus continues to spread across the eastern part of the state. Health officials confirmed that both victims were unvaccinated residents of Lancaster County. The Pennsylvania Department of Health has not released their identities or ad

The deaths are the first associated with the highly contagious disease in Pennsylvania in 35 years and occurred amid a major measles outbreak that has sickened nearly 400 people this year.