The family mourning America’s first measles death in a decade

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  Good morning.

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  It's Thursday, March 20th.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  This is Apple News today.

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  On today's show, Vice President Vance's unusual role in the TikTok talks,

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  the big names to know in the NCAA tournament

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  and why a government webpage about Jackie Robinson was scrubbed and restored.

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  But first, to the measles outbreak that has now infected more than 300 people across West Texas,

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  New Mexico and Oklahoma.

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  Authorities in Texas are now saying the outbreak could take up to a year to contain.

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  The outbreak is centered in Gaines county on the border of Texas and New Mexico.

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  Texas health officials said Tuesday 279 cases have been identified

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  since late January and and 36 people have been hospitalized.

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  There has been one death in Texas, a 6 year old child,

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  the first measles death in the country in a decade.

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  Tom Bartlett is a freelance reporter and recently traveled to the town of Seminole in Gaines county

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  to write about this for the Atlantic.

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  It is way out in the desert.

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  You pass through long stretches between towns where there isn't much other than, you know,

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  oil pump jacks and it's a small town, it's about 7,000 people in Seminole.

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