{"id":785,"date":"2022-10-08T08:51:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=785"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:11","slug":"a-wave-of-anti-vaccine-legislation-is-sweeping-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/08\/a-wave-of-anti-vaccine-legislation-is-sweeping-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"A wave of anti-vaccine legislation is sweeping the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/10\/6\/23389145\/covid-19-anti-vaccine-legislation\">Vox<\/a> &#8211; The anti-vaccine movement is gaining strength even after 1 million Americans have died of Covid-19. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, does not mince words when describing the scientific legacy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/covid-19-coronavirus-treatment-prevention-cure-vaccines\">the Covid-19 vaccines<\/a>: The mRNA shots, he said, are \u201cthe greatest scientific achievement in my lifetime.\u201d Yet as the weather starts to turn cold and as officials push for more people to get their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/23341417\/booster-bivalent-covid-19-vaccine-shot-new-pfizer-moderna\">new booster shot<\/a>\u00a0before an expected winter coronavirus surge, public health leaders<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>are battling skepticism and apathy toward the vaccines. Worse, experts fear the politicized backlash to the Covid-19 vaccines is already fostering skepticism about routine vaccinations generally, from childhood immunizations to flu shots.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vox &#8211; The anti-vaccine movement is gaining strength even after 1 million Americans have died of Covid-19. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, does not mince words when describing the scientific legacy of\u00a0the Covid-19 vaccines: The mRNA shots, he said, are \u201cthe greatest scientific achievement in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}