{"id":20021,"date":"2026-03-15T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-surgeon-general-pick-now-says-people-should-get-vaccinated-for-measles\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:22:18","slug":"trumps-surgeon-general-pick-now-says-people-should-get-vaccinated-for-measles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-surgeon-general-pick-now-says-people-should-get-vaccinated-for-measles\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s surgeon general pick now says people should get vaccinated for measles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon General nominee Casey Means, who drew criticism last month for sidestepping a direct endorsement of the measles vaccine during her confirmation hearing, has clarified that she believes people should take the shot, according to written responses obtained by MS NOW.  Lawmakers from both parties raised concerns after Means told senators that vaccinations &ldquo;save lives&rdquo;&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5784691-measles-vaccine-surgeon-general-stance\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon General nominee Casey Means, who drew criticism last month for sidestepping a direct endorsement of the measles vaccine during her confirmation hearing, has clarified that she believes people should take the shot, according to written responses obtained by MS NOW. Lawmakers from both parties raised concerns after Means told senators that vaccinations &ldquo;save lives&rdquo;&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20021","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\/20021","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=20021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}