{"id":13277,"date":"2024-04-01T18:27:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13277"},"modified":"2024-04-01T18:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:27:24","slug":"florida-gop-senators-defend-desantis-surgeon-general-amid-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13277","title":{"rendered":"Florida GOP senators defend DeSantis\u2019 surgeon general amid measles outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The measles outbreak in Florida shows the further polarization of vaccines, one area that once had overwhelming consensus across political parties and throughout the U.S. The measles vaccine is especially effective in protecting against the virus and, according to the CDC, has led to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/measles\/vaccination.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">99 percent decrease<\/a>&nbsp;in the virus compared to the pre-vaccine era.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/03\/04\/florida-measles-ladapo-desantis-00144561\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/03\/04\/florida-measles-ladapo-desantis-00144561<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The measles outbreak in Florida shows the further polarization of vaccines, one area that once had overwhelming consensus across political parties and throughout the U.S. The measles vaccine is especially effective in protecting against the virus and, according to the CDC, has led to a 99 percent decrease in the virus compared to the pre-vaccine era.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/03\/04\/florida-measles-ladapo-desantis-00144561<\/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":[778,471,81,525],"class_list":["post-13277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-diseases","tag-florida","tag-health","tag-measles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277","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=13277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13278,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13277\/revisions\/13278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}