Alex Berenson Is Talking About Measles Now
Something else he can be wrong about...
Alex Berenson became an anti-vaccine influencer during the COVID pandemic and more and more, has been moving on to other vaccines…
With his latest post, he targets the measles vaccine again.
Alex Berenson Is Talking About Measles Now
I say again, because it’s not the first time that Alex Berenson has talked about measles.
Last year, he criticized Margaret Renkl for her New York Times essay about getting a measles vaccine.
Surprisingly though, he wasn’t always so anti-vaccine…
In fact, he used to dislike anti-vaxxers!
What Alex Berenson Thinks Is the Truth About Rising Measles Cases
And now he is posting what he thinks is the “truth” about rising measles cases, none of which is true of course.
“In reality, by historical standards — even recent historical standards — our current measles “epidemic” is vastly overstated.”
Alex Berenson
Why does he think that our current measles outbreaks are vastly overstated?
Because 35 years ago, just 26 years after the first measles vaccines were introduced, and before we routinely gave kids a second dose of MMR, we did indeed have a few years with even more cases.
Many more cases, in fact! From 1989 to 1991, there were at least 55,622 cases of measles and 123 deaths.
But then, by 2000, we stopped the endemic spread of measles in the United States and cases remained low for quite a while.
So by ‘recent historical standards,’ you have to say that the current spike in measles cases is quite unusual!
“But the outbreak received [only] modest media attention… The reason may have had something to do with the fact the outbreak was centered in poor black and Hispanic communities in New York City — groups reporters did not view as appropriate targets for vaccination shaming campaigns (unlike Mennonites or Orthodox Jews).”
Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson is also wrong about the media coverage of the 1990 measles outbreaks, something you would think he could fact-check as a former New York Times reporter…
Stories about the measles epidemics were in newspapers almost every day!
In fact, before the endemic spread of measles was eliminated in 2000, stories about measles were often in the paper, just as they are now when there are outbreaks.
Alex Berenson is Wrong About Measles
To be clear, the above just got us through the introduction to Alex Berenson’s new post…
After that, not surprisingly, it gets worse.
How?
Alex Berenson is wrong that measles cases ‘fizzled’ in January.
“The “epidemic” appeared to be gaining momentum in January, but it has since fizzled, even as the media and health bureaucrat hysteria continues.”
Alex Berenson
In fact, measles cases are up 144% since January!
And there is no sign that these measles outbreaks will be fizzling out any time soon…
Also, he repeatedly refers to the measles outbreaks as an “epidemic,” even though no one except anti-vaccine influencers are saying that measles has become an epidemic.
What else?
uses the false equivalence fallacy to minimize the deaths of the two unvaccinated children with measles in Texas by comparing them to drowning deaths.
like RFK Jr, he tries to minimize the measles cases in the United States by comparing them to measles cases in Canada. I mean, if we are going to start doing that, then do it for everything, like school shootings and the number of kids who are uninsured!
reposts the thoughts of Cory Franklin, who claims that we are seeing more measles outbreaks because “most of these older patients did not originally come from the US or Canada, but from countries with lower vaccination rates.”
That’s right, Alex Berenson is now pushing the narrative that our measles outbreaks are being caused by immigrants.
“With data, authorities and the media could disprove (or confirm) the foreign influx theory rather than simply invoking authority and issuing denials. There is no excuse for failure to track the ages and country origins of measles patients.”
Cory Franklin via Alex Berenson
A narrative that has been disproven many times already.
After all, we know the country origins of most measles patients!
“As of April 16, 2026, 1,748 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States in 2026. ... A total of 10 measles cases were reported among international visitors to the United States.”
CDC - Measles Cases and Outbreaks
These are mostly home-grown outbreaks!
And we know that immigrants aren’t starting measles outbreaks.
Alex Berenson is wrong - again.
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