Overview
- State health officials say five newly identified student cases lifted South Carolina’s total to 16, with exposures tied to two Spartanburg County schools that report very low immunization rates.
- At least 153 unvaccinated students exposed in Spartanburg County were ordered to stay home for 21 days, and officials warn of unrecognized community transmission in the Upstate region.
- Minnesota has logged 20 cases this year, including two newly confirmed infections in unvaccinated children likely infected by an unvaccinated adult, with roughly 118 students quarantining in the Twin Cities area.
- The CDC reports 1,563 confirmed U.S. cases across dozens of outbreaks this year, the most in more than three decades, with the vast majority occurring in people who were not vaccinated.
- A growing Arizona–Utah cluster includes 55 cases reported in Utah, where wastewater testing indicates wider circulation, and experts caution official counts may understate true spread.