PA Gov. Josh Shapiro and State Health Officials Caught Pushing Fake Measles Death Narrative in Lancaster County — Officials Refuse to Cooperate as County Coroner Confirms ZERO Deaths FROM Measles
by Jim Hᴏft Aug. 26, 2026 2:20 pm
The mainstream media and leftist government bureaucrats are at it again, pushing panic, fear, and unverified headlines to control the public narrative, only to get caught red-handed when local officials demand basic transparency.
During a high-profile press conference on Tuesay, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, alongside state health officials and Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, announced that two “measles-associated deaths” occurred in Lancaster County.
The legacy media immediately ran with the headlines. Two people died FROM measles. Case closed. Get the shot. Blame the unvaccinated. Blame RFK Jr.
There’s just one major problem: Local authorities have ZERO record of these alleged deaths.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called out the massive discrepancies and the state’s sudden refusal to share basic factual data.
Kennedy said Shapiro accused him of promoting “conspiracy theories” after Kennedy noted that some Americans have religious objections to MMR because of fetal-cell substrate used in manufacturing.
Shapiro reportedly snapped that there is “no fetal tissue in the MMR.” Kennedy responded that Shapiro could not produce a single example of HHS “misinformation” when asked, yet repeated the smear on camera anyway, while ignoring the fact that Pennsylvania’s own drop in vaccination rates largely occurred during the Biden years, a fact Shapiro reportedly admitted in a private call with RFK Jr.
RFK Jr.: “We are trying to get information about those two casualties. According to a statement that was released by the Lancaster County Commissioner today, they cannot find any measles deaths in Lancaster County, and they complain that the governor will not give them that information.
CDC tried to get that information from the governor yesterday, and the state is refusing to cooperate. We’re doing a better job than any country in the world at controlling the measles outbreak. This is a worldwide epidemic, and it’s happening because of the lockdowns, because many kids did not get vaccinated during the lockdowns.
Then you had a dramatic diminishment of public faith in the regulatory agencies during the COVID period because of government overreaching, because of the gaslighting and the manipulation.
So, even in my discussion with Governor Shapiro yesterday, he said to me, “Well, we’ve seen this big drop in vaccination rates in the state from 97 to 92.3.” He admitted on the phone that it all happened during the Biden administration.
Since I’ve been in office, since President Trump’s been in office, there’s been a one-tenth of 1% diminishment. We are actually restoring faith in the public health agencies so people will take our advice. And our advice is that people should get the measles vaccination.
There are certain communities and certain religious communities that don’t—won’t do that, and we want to take care of those kids as well.
So, Mexico has 11 times the amount of measles cases as we do. Canada has four times the amount of measles cases. Britain has two times.
Every place there’s been a measles outbreak, I’ve sent the CDC in to cooperate with the state health agencies, and we’ve brought it to an end overnight. The only state that won’t cooperate with us is Pennsylvania, and we can’t get any information.
The press is all covering this as if those measles deaths actually happened, but nobody’s doing the sort of—the little bit of critical inquiry to find out.
We’re trying to figure out, you know, who those deaths were and whether they actually happened, and we can’t figure that out yet.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/pa-gov-josh-shapiro-state-health-officials-caught/