{"id":67036,"date":"2026-02-23T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/fears-of-polio-resurgence-as-us-vaccine-adviser-questions-need-for-childhood-shots\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:55:12","slug":"fears-of-polio-resurgence-as-us-vaccine-adviser-questions-need-for-childhood-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/fears-of-polio-resurgence-as-us-vaccine-adviser-questions-need-for-childhood-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases \u2013 \u2018the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine\u2019<\/p>\n<p>With preventable infectious diseases surging and top US vaccines adviser saying all vaccine recommendations may be reconsidered, experts are bracing for more polio cases while survivors say the medical system is not ready for polio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have a healthcare infrastructure to take care of a polio outbreak,\u201d said Grace Rossow, an operating-room communications coordinator in Illinois, who has long-term health issues following a case of polio as an infant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/23\/polio-vaccines-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases \u2013 \u2018the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine\u2019 With preventable infectious diseases surging and top US vaccines adviser saying all vaccine recommendations may be reconsidered, experts are bracing for more polio cases while survivors say the medical system is not ready for &#8230; <a title=\"Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/fears-of-polio-resurgence-as-us-vaccine-adviser-questions-need-for-childhood-shots\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}