Josh Shapiro
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239 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Josh Shapiro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good to be with you, Jen.
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Thanks.
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Look, this is a tough moment.
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I mean, we really are the epicenter of the national measles outbreak.
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You mentioned the top, we've got over seven hundred and thirty cases spanning more than half of Pennsylvania's counties.
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And sadly, um, we've lost four Pennsylvanians from what should be absolutely preventable.
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You know, as you noted, twenty-five years ago, measles was declared eliminated.
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In the country.
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And yet now we've seen it come roaring back, largely because vaccine rates have dropped.
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You know, there's that thing called herd immunity or community immunity, where you have enough people vaccinated that it protects the people who can't be vaccinated for health reasons or age or what have you.
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And that magic number above like roughly 95% has dropped.
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And in some
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Communities dropped really dramatically.
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And because measles is so contagious, if you're unvaccinated and you walk in a room with someone with measles, you're likely walking out with measles, unfortunately.
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And so we're just seeing it spread all across our Commonwealth.
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It's incredibly dangerous.
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We're seeing dozens of hospitalizations and, of course, these four fatalities.
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We're not at the end of it.
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I think there, you know, the the the there's no good news here in it, but the positive storyline here is that folks are realizing how dangerous this is.
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And Jen, they're getting vaccinated.
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