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OUTLETS DISAGREETuesday 15 September 2026

Outlets disagree: Poll completion date: 'Monday' vs. specific calendar date

detroitnews.com; thestar.com.my the full text

As published

4 pages captured at the time, in each outlet's own typography. Open one to read the copy held outside the publisher's control.

What this entry found

  • ONE SOURCE, MANY MASTHEADS

    4 outlets carried this. They resolve to 2 independent sources.

    A reader sampling these outlets received 2 accounts, not 4.

How the poll was reported

3 of 6 stated across the articles in this entry.

  • No article states whether respondents were sampled or opted in. That distinction decides whether the figure can describe anyone beyond the people who answered.
  • Pollster: Ipsos.
  • Commissioned by: Reuters.
  • When conducted: four-day poll completed September 14, 2026.
  • Who was sampled: not stated in any article.
  • Sample size: not stated in any article.
  • Margin of error: not stated in any article.
  • Question wording published: not in any article.

This lists what the articles said and did not say. A detail missing here may appear in the pollster's own release; it was not in the coverage.

4outlets→2independent
What happened, for context

A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that trust in measles vaccines among Americans has declined to 76% from 84% in May 2020. The poll was conducted over four days and completed in mid-September 2026. The United States is experiencing its worst measles outbreak in 35 years, with Pennsylvania reporting three measles-related deaths.

3 of 4 articles were readable. Headline only, no body text retrieved, for: reuters.com. Nothing below is drawn from those outlets beyond their headline.

Who reported it

    • reuters.comWIRE
    • straitstimes.comINDEP
    • thestar.com.myUNCLASSIFIED
    identical copy
  • detroitnews.comUNCLASSIFIED

References

Carried by multiple outlets

  • Trust in measles, mumps and rubella vaccines among Americans stands at 76%, down from 84% in May 2020detroitnews.com, straitstimes.com, thestar.com.my
  • The poll was conducted over four daysdetroitnews.com, straitstimes.com, thestar.com.my
  • A bipartisan majority of Americans backs vaccinating children against measlesdetroitnews.com, straitstimes.com, thestar.com.my
  • Declining trust in vaccines was most pronounced among Republicansdetroitnews.com, straitstimes.com, thestar.com.my
  • President Donald Trump signed an executive order in August calling for reducing the federal childhood vaccination schedule from 17 to 11 immunizationsdetroitnews.com, straitstimes.com, thestar.com.my
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a longtime anti-vaccine activist before becoming Trump's health secretarydetroitnews.com, straitstimes.com, thestar.com.my
  • and 3 more, not shown

Reported by one outlet only

  • More than 3,000 confirmed measles infections have been tallied in 2026, the most in 35 yearsonly thestar.com.my

Reported unevenly

  • Poll completion date: 'Monday' vs. specific calendar datestated by detroitnews.com, thestar.com.my · absent from straitstimes.com