While weekly reported cases have slowed over the past few months, the CDC’s figure surpasses the high of 1,274 cases in 2019 and marks a grim milestone for the U.S. as immunization coverage wanes across the country and the federal government’s vaccine policy shifts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Confirmed measles cases in the U.S. reached 1,288, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed on Wednesday, the highest since the childhood disease was declared eliminated from the country in 2000.

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More than 1,000 cases of measles have been reported across the U.S. as of Thursday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ().The Context

Kennedy also this year dismissed the notion that many died from measles in a 2019 Samoan outbreak that killed 83 and infected more than 5,000 people.

Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that spreads through coughing and sneezing. It can cause serious complications, such as pneumonia and encephalitis, for children under 5 years old.