In public health news, measles cases are continuing to rise across the United States. According to the CDC, the number of confirmed measles cases has topped 1,900 this year — higher than any year since the U.S. declared the disease eliminated in 2000. In South Carolina, there were 129 confirmed cases this month; 250 people are quarantining. This comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to express skepticism about vaccinating children. Meanwhile, in California, Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed two prominent scientists, Dr. Susan Monarez and Dr. Debra Houry, who left the CDC earlier this year, to help lead the state’s new Public Health Network Innovation Exchange. Dr. Monarez, the former director of the CDC, was fired less than a month into her tenure after she clashed with the administration over vaccine policy. The CDC’s former chief medical officer, Dr. Houry, resigned shortly after Monarez was fired.