{"id":13384,"date":"2025-09-17T21:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-cdc-and-covid-vaccine-deserve-scrutiny-not-elimination\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:20:41","slug":"the-cdc-and-covid-vaccine-deserve-scrutiny-not-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-cdc-and-covid-vaccine-deserve-scrutiny-not-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"The CDC and COVID vaccine deserve scrutiny, not elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is disheartening that what was a great historical public health accomplishment has deteriorated to a political battle&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/healthcare\/5506199-cdc-struggles-public-health\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is disheartening that what was a great historical public health accomplishment has deteriorated to a political battle&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}