The measles crisis is worse than we know—and the CDC can’t keep up

The Trump administration has been busy hacking away at the Department of Health and Human Services, and the results have been devastating.

David Sugerman, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that a large number of measles cases are going unreported—and that the government’s ability to respond has been strained by recent federal budget cuts.

“We do believe that there’s quite a large amount of cases that are not reported and underreported,”...