{"id":14681,"date":"2024-09-10T16:56:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14681"},"modified":"2024-09-10T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T16:56:21","slug":"trumps-campaign-against-public-health-is-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14681","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s campaign against public health is back on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“People are already losing trust in vaccines: Only 40 percent of Americans believe<\/a> it is extremely important for parents to get their children vaccinated, down from 64 percent in 2001. It is perhaps the most worrying trend in public health right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have the tools to stop many infectious diseases \u2014 if we take advantage of them. Trump\u2019s words are making it less likely that people will.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Meanwhile, measles cases in the US matched their 2023 total<\/a> over just the first few months of 2024. A local outbreak in Oregon has seen nearly two dozen cases<\/a> since June; at least two people have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A disease that was once effectively eradicated in the US \u2014 and which school mandates helped to stamp out \u2014 is mounting a comeback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump could choose to wield his tremendous influence to try to restore people\u2019s faith in vital public health measures. He did it, if half-heartedly, during the pandemic and it had the desired effect. Instead, he\u2019s stoking doubts about the value of vaccines, and courting the dangers vaccine hesitancy brings.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/today-explained-newsletter\/366472\/2024-election-donald-trump-vaccines-schools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“People are already losing trust in vaccines: Only 40 percent of Americans believe it is extremely important for parents to get their children vaccinated, down from 64 percent in 2001. It is perhaps the most worrying trend in public health right now.
\nWe have the tools to stop many infectious diseases \u2014 if we take advantage of them. Trump\u2019s words are making it less likely that people will.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Meanwhile, measles cases in the US matched their 2023 total over just the first few months of 2024. A local outbreak in Oregon has seen nearly two dozen cases since June; at least two people have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n

A disease that was once effectively eradicated in the US \u2014 and which school mandates helped to stamp out \u2014 is mounting a comeback.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump could choose to wield his tremendous influence to try to restore people\u2019s faith in vital public health measures. He did it, if half-heartedly, during the pandemic and it had the desired effect. Instead, he\u2019s stoking doubts about the value of vaccines, and courting the dangers vaccine hesitancy brings.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/today-explained-newsletter\/366472\/2024-election-donald-trump-vaccines-schools<\/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":[738,778,221,81,73,170,526,925,410,496],"class_list":["post-14681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-disease-spread","tag-diseases","tag-donald-trump","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-trump","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine","tag-vaccines","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681","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=14681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14682,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions\/14682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}