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New York governor declares state of emergency over measles outbreak
Oct 6, 1 AM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET
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Oct 6, 3 AM 6 AM 9 AM 12 PM 3 PM 6 PM 8 15 left center right Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 1 AM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean:
Oct 5, 6 PM Oct 6 6 AM 12 PM 6 PM BloombergBloomberg Bloomberg, Oct 5, 4:00 PM ET: New York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak ReutersReuters Reuters, Oct 5, 7:00 PM ET: New York declares first US measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge IJRIndependent Journal Review Independent Journal Review, Oct 5, 7:00 PM ET: New York Declares Emergency Amid 108 Measles Cases New York PostNew York Post New York Post, Oct 5, 8:00 PM ET: NY declares state disaster emergency over measles outbreak in rural communities New York TimesNew York Times New York Times, Oct 5, 10:00 PM ET: Hochul Declares a Measles Emergency as Cases Rise in Rural New York The Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times The Epoch Times, Oct 6, 1:00 AM ET: New York Declares State Disaster Emergency Amid Measles Outbreak NBC NewsNBC News NBC News, Oct 6, 6:00 AM ET: New York declares first U.S. measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge Fox NewsFox News Fox News, Oct 6, 8:00 AM ET: New York declares measles disaster emergency as cases surge in Pennsylvania Scripps NewsScripps News Scripps News, Oct 6, 9:00 AM ET: Health Measles surge triggers state of emergency in New York Justin Boggs The GuardianThe Guardian The Guardian, Oct 6, 10:00 AM ET: New York governor declares state of emergency after spike in measles cases News NationNews Nation News Nation, Oct 6, 12:00 PM ET: New York declares measles emergency amid outbreak BreitbartBreitbart Breitbart, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: NY Declares Statewide Emergency to ‘Confront’ Measles Outbreak Breitbart, Oct 6, 2:00 PM ET: VIDEO: New York Declares Statewide Emergency to 'Confront' Measles Outbreak Breitbart, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: New York Declares Statewide Emergency to ‘Confront’ Measles Outbreak The IndependentThe Independent The Independent, Oct 6, 1:00 PM ET: Measles outbreak mapped: New York declares state of emergency after virus wreaks havoc in Pennsylvania The Daily CallerThe Daily Caller The Daily Caller, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: Democrat Governor Declares State Of Emergency After About 100 Measles Cases ABC NewsABC News ABC News, Oct 6, 4:00 PM ET: New York declares state disaster emergency over measles. Here's what that means 📺 TV BBC News, 4:42 AM ET: NY state declares measles disaster emergency CNN, 5:39 AM ET: NY DECLARES FIRST U.S. MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY SINCE 2025 CNN, 5:40 AM ET: NY DECLARES FIRST U.S. MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY SINCE 2025 CNN, 7:24 AM ET: NEW YORK EXPANDS VACCINE ACCESS AMID MEASLES EMERGENCY CNN, 7:24 AM ET: MEASLES SURGE PROMPTS NEW YORK TO DECLARE DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 7:24 AM ET: MEASLES SURGE PROMPTS NEW YORK TO DECLARE DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 7:24 AM ET: NY DECLARES FIRST U.S. MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY SINCE 2025 CNN, 7:25 AM ET: NEW YORK DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 7:25 AM ET: NEW YORK AUTHORIZES MORE PROVIDERS TO ADMINISTER MMR SHOTS CNN, 7:43 AM ET: MEASLES SURGE PROMPTS NEW YORK TO DECLARE DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 7:43 AM ET: MEASLES SURGE PROMPTS NEW YORK TO DECLARE DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 7:43 AM ET: MEASLES SURGE PROMPTS NEW YORK TO DECLARE DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 7:44 AM ET: MEASLES SURGE PROMPTS NEW YORK TO DECLARE DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 9:31 AM ET: MEASLES SURGE PROMPTS NEW YORK TO DECLARE DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 9:32 AM ET: NEW YORK DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 9:32 AM ET: MEASLES SURGE PROMPTS NEW YORK TO DECLARE DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 9:32 AM ET: NY DECLARES FIRST U.S. MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY SINCE 2025 CNN, 9:33 AM ET: NEW YORK EXPANDS VACCINE ACCESS AMID MEASLES EMERGENCY CNN, 9:33 AM ET: NEW YORK DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 9:33 AM ET: NEW YORK EMERGENCY FOLLOWS MEASLES OUTBREAKS IN PENNSYLVANIA MSNOW, 1:46 PM ET: PEDIATRIGIANS INVESTIGATED CNN, 2:41 PM ET: MEASLES DISASTER DECLARATION IN NEW YORK CNN, 2:48 PM ET: NEW YORK GOVERNOR DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 2:48 PM ET: NEW YORK GOVERNOR DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY. Dr. Paul Offit | Dir., Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia CNN, 2:49 PM ET: NEW YORK GOVERNOR DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 2:49 PM ET: Relaxes rules on who can administer vaccines as state sees rise in cases CNN, 2:49 PM ET: NEW YORK GOVERNOR DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY. Dr. Paul Offit | Dir., Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia CNN, 2:49 PM ET: NEW YORK GOVERNOR DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 2:50 PM ET: NEW YORK GOVERNOR DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 2:50 PM ET: Relaxes rules on who can administer vaccines as state sees rise in cases CNN, 2:50 PM ET: NEW YORK DECLARES MEASLES EMERGENCY AS DEADLY. PENNSYLVANIA OUTBREAK SPREADS ALONG BORDER CNN, 2:50 PM ET: NEW YORK GOVERNOR DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY. Dr. Paul Offit | Dir., Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia CNN, 2:51 PM ET: NEW YORK DECLARES MEASLES EMERGENCY AS DEADLY. PENNSYLVANIA OUTBREAK SPREADS ALONG BORDER CNN, 2:53 PM ET: NEW YORK DECLARES MEASLES EMERGENCY AS DEADLY. PENNSYLVANIA OUTBREAK SPREADS ALONG BORDER CNN, 3:09 PM ET: MEASLES EMERGENCY Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline
from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not
rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it
(bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (NBC News)
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News
💬 quoted: “Confront”
🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 state disaster
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
Breitbart (3 wordings): “NY Declares Statewide Emergency to ‘Confront’ Measles Outbreak” → “New York Declares Statewide Emergency to ‘Confront’ Measles Outbreak”Every outlet's first headline (15), left to right by AllSides rating
New York governor declares state of emergency after spike in measles cases Oct 6, 10 AM ET New York declares state disaster emergency over measles. Here's what that means Oct 6, 4 PM ET New York declares first U.S. measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge Oct 6, 6 AM ET Hochul Declares a Measles Emergency as Cases Rise in Rural New York Oct 5, 10 PM ET Measles outbreak mapped: New York declares state of emergency after virus wreaks havoc in Pennsylvania Oct 6, 1 PM ET New York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak Oct 5, 4 PM ET New York declares measles emergency amid outbreak Oct 6, 12 PM ET New York declares first US measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge Oct 5, 7 PM ET Health Measles surge triggers state of emergency in New York Justin Boggs Oct 6, 9 AM ET New York Declares State Disaster Emergency Amid Measles Outbreak Oct 6, 1 AM ET NY Declares Statewide Emergency to ‘Confront’ Measles Outbreak Oct 6, 1 PM ET New York declares measles disaster emergency as cases surge in Pennsylvania Oct 6, 8 AM ET New York Declares Emergency Amid 108 Measles Cases Oct 5, 7 PM ET NY declares state disaster emergency over measles outbreak in rural communities Oct 5, 8 PM ET Democrat Governor Declares State Of Emergency After About 100 Measles Cases Oct 6, 4 PM ET
📡 Broadcast TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
CNN 15 min
BBC News 16 s
MSNOW 8 s
NEW YORK GOVERNOR DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 3 min MEASLES SURGE PROMPTS NEW YORK TO DECLARE DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 2 min NEW YORK DECLARES MEASLES EMERGENCY AS DEADLY. PENNSYLVANIA OUTBREAK SPREADS ALONG BORDER CNN, 2 min NEW YORK GOVERNOR DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY. Dr. Paul Offit | Dir., Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia CNN, 2 min NY DECLARES FIRST U.S. MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY SINCE 2025 CNN, 87 s NEW YORK DECLARES MEASLES DISASTER EMERGENCY CNN, 83 s Relaxes rules on who can administer vaccines as state sees rise in cases CNN, 70 s NEW YORK AUTHORIZES MORE PROVIDERS TO ADMINISTER MMR SHOTS CNN, 43 s
🧶 Retelling what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: New York State Kathy Hochul Measles outbreak
🔎 Checking what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence the running story it belongs to
Pennsylvania reports over 1,000 measles cases
Oct 5, 6 PM ET
New York governor declares state of emergency over measles outbreak (this story)
Oct 6, 1 AM ET
The Guardian
New York governor declares state of emergency after spike in measles cases Oct 6, 10 AM ET
ABC News
New York declares state disaster emergency over measles. Here's what that means Oct 6, 4 PM ET
NBC News
New York declares first U.S. measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge Oct 6, 6 AM ET
New York Times
Hochul Declares a Measles Emergency as Cases Rise in Rural New York Oct 5, 10 PM ET
The Independent
Measles outbreak mapped: New York declares state of emergency after virus wreaks havoc in Pennsylvania Oct 6, 1 PM ET
Bloomberg
New York Declares State of Emergency Over Measles Outbreak Oct 5, 4 PM ET
News Nation
New York declares measles emergency amid outbreak Oct 6, 12 PM ET
Reuters
New York declares first US measles disaster emergency since 2025 surge Oct 5, 7 PM ET
Scripps News
Health Measles surge triggers state of emergency in New York Justin Boggs Oct 6, 9 AM ET
The Epoch Times
New York Declares State Disaster Emergency Amid Measles Outbreak Oct 6, 1 AM ET
Breitbart
NY Declares Statewide Emergency to ‘Confront’ Measles Outbreak Oct 6, 1 PM ET
Fox News
New York declares measles disaster emergency as cases surge in Pennsylvania Oct 6, 8 AM ET
IJR
New York Declares Emergency Amid 108 Measles Cases Oct 5, 7 PM ET
New York Post
NY declares state disaster emergency over measles outbreak in rural communities Oct 5, 8 PM ET
The Daily Caller
Democrat Governor Declares State Of Emergency After About 100 Measles Cases Oct 6, 4 PM ET