{"id":37672,"date":"2021-07-14T23:18:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37672"},"modified":"2021-07-14T23:18:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:18:27","slug":"anti-vaxxers-gain-power-on-right-triggering-new-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37672","title":{"rendered":"Anti-vaxxers gain power on right, triggering new fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public health experts are growing increasingly concerned about a rise in anti-vaccination rhetoric among elected officials and right-wing media as a new wave of coronavirus infections begins to wash over Americans who have yet to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Legislators in more than 40 states have introduced measures to bar vaccine passports, and many Republican governors have signed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zmsdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrmpmplr_gcrcrrgygdctytymmmtr.html?a=&amp;b=40699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zmsdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrmpmplr_gcrcrrgygdctytymmmtr.html?a%3D%26b%3D40699&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626410050900000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE25DOSdsODDE1TllcDXaajuxm3gA\">executive orders<\/a>\u00a0or laws barring their use.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, Republican governors and legislators are now repeating far-right talking points questioning the safety and effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines, in spite of the overwhelming scientific evidence that the vaccines developed in the past year are some of the safest and most effective ever created.<\/p>\n<p>Public health experts were especially alarmed earlier this week when Tennessee\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mqtsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqyqydq_gcrcrrgygdctytymmmtr.html?a=&amp;b=40699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mqtsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqyqydq_gcrcrrgygdctytymmmtr.html?a%3D%26b%3D40699&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626410050900000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFXgt5-LHjuTLkXaYvVr2ERmVW07w\">Department of Health fired<\/a>\u00a0Michelle Fiscus, the state\u2019s top vaccine official, after the state legislature raised concerns about public health guidance she issued for teenagers seeking to receive the coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s shocking. It\u2019s not shocking that we had a fringe group that\u2019s anti vaccine. That\u2019s been true since the first vaccine,\u201d said Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia. \u201cIt is shocking to me that people who are representing the public and the health and well-being of the public are choosing to take this dramatic anti-science stance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public health experts are growing increasingly&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37673,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37672\/revisions\/37673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}