the signal in the noise

In the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that measles, a deadly and highly infectious disease which disproportionately harms children, was successfully declared eliminated. Twenty five years later, that status stands to be revoked.

While between 2000-2019, only 3,873 cases of measles were reported in the US, 1,798 had been reported as of November 25th in 2025 alone.