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Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus

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By Joelle Gross, Caroline Kee Verified, Dana Varinsky Verified
| NBC News Verified
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result, a level that would previously have been classified as high transmission, may now register as moderate instead.
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Infant in Pennsylvania is one of two people reported to die of measles this week Original

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By Aria Bendix Verified, Erika Edwards Verified, Dana Varinsky Verified
| NBC News Verified
Aug. 26, 2026, 5:27 PM EDT One of the two people who recently died of measles in Pennsylvania was an infant, the state Health Department said Wednesday. The department announced Tuesday that two unvaccinated residents had died of measles, the first measles-related deaths in the U.S. this year and the first in Pennsylvania in 35 years.
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NASA orders astronauts on evacuation alert as space station air leak worsens

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By Dana Varinsky Verified, Jay Blackman Verified
| NBC News Verified
June 5, 2026, 12:51 PM EDT / Source: Reuters A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to temporarily take shelter and prepare for evacuation on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion of the orbital laboratory, NASA said.
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