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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points. ABC and NBC framed the story in straightforwardly factual terms — "2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania" and "Two die of measles in Pennsylvania outbreak, health officials say" — without specifying any characteristics of the victims or assigning causal context. The only modest framing distinction came from NeutralNews, whose headline "Two Unvaccinated People Die of Measles in Pennsylvania" leads with the victims' vaccination status. Scorers flagged this as placing slight causal emphasis on being unvaccinated, implicitly connecting that status to the deaths rather than treating it as incidental background detail. This is a minor difference in editorial prioritization rather than ideological slant, and the overall picture is one of consistent, factual reporting across outlets with no meaningful political framing detectable in the headlines.