{"id":11023,"date":"2023-06-24T13:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11023"},"modified":"2023-06-24T13:24:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T13:24:40","slug":"how-covid-made-it-nearly-impossible-to-pass-new-vaccine-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11023","title":{"rendered":"How Covid made it nearly impossible to pass new vaccine rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The HPV vaccine has been around for almost two decades and could spare thousands of people from developing cervical and oral cancer \u2014 so mandating it for schoolchildren once seemed an easy call for Democrats in deep-blue California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a bill to do just that has been watered down beyond recognition in one of the most liberal states in the U.S., a victim of a homegrown anti-vaccine movement that has become more organized and more successful since the pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Across the country, blue-state policymakers have nearly given up trying to create new vaccine policy and are now simply trying to hold the line on a decade\u2019s worth of public health gains. Attempts to add required vaccines for school kids this year sputtered in Wisconsin, California and Massachusetts, a stunning reversal after a successful push to tighten exemptions for mandated childhood vaccines.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/04\/how-covid-made-it-nearly-impossible-to-pass-new-vaccine-rules-00100073\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/04\/how-covid-made-it-nearly-impossible-to-pass-new-vaccine-rules-00100073<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The HPV vaccine has been around for almost two decades and could spare thousands of people from developing cervical and oral cancer \u2014 so mandating it for schoolchildren once seemed an easy call for Democrats in deep-blue California.<br \/>\nBut a bill to do just that has been watered down beyond recognition in one of the most liberal states in the U.S., a victim of a homegrown anti-vaccine movement that has become more organized and more successful since the pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Across the country, blue-state policymakers have nearly given up trying to create new vaccine policy and are now simply trying to hold the line on a decade\u2019s worth of public health gains. Attempts to add required vaccines for school kids this year sputtered in Wisconsin, California and Massachusetts, a stunning reversal after a successful push to tighten exemptions for mandated childhood vaccines.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,925],"class_list":["post-11023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11024,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions\/11024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}