Hospitals Fighting Measles Confront a Challenge: Few Doctors Have Seen It Before By Andrew Jones February 24, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/measles-outbreak-cdc-carolina-sc-nc-vaccines/ The virus exposed at least 26 other people in the hospital that January day, federal investigators determined. Health inspectors for CMS investigated the measles infections and other failures in care and concluded that the twins’ symptoms should have triggered an isolation procedure for which Mission Hospital staffers had trained seven months earlier. CMS designated Mission in “Immediate Jeopardy” for the exposures and other unrelated issues, one of the most severe sanctions a hospital can face, threatening to pull federal funding unless it remedied the problems.