{"id":70917,"date":"2026-04-05T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/us-health-officials-appear-to-shy-away-from-anti-vaccine-talk-ahead-of-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:04:45","slug":"us-health-officials-appear-to-shy-away-from-anti-vaccine-talk-ahead-of-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/us-health-officials-appear-to-shy-away-from-anti-vaccine-talk-ahead-of-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"US health officials appear to shy away from anti-vaccine talk ahead of midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elections seem top-of-mind for the Maha movement as key polling indicates anti-vaccine views are a liability<\/p>\n<p>US health officials appear to be shying away from voicing negative views of vaccines in public as November\u2019s midterm elections loom and key polling indicates anti-vaccine views are a liability.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials have made unprecedented changes to routine vaccine recommendations in the past year \u2013 slashing one-third of the US childhood schedule, including the recommendation for hepatitis B immunization at birth. But even before a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/judge-blocks-rfk-jr-vaccine-policy-changes\">essentially invalidated<\/a> these moves, officials haven\u2019t championed their dramatic changes after Donald Trump\u2019s pollsters recommended veering away from anti-vaccine ideology ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/05\/health-officials-anti-vaccine-views-midterms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections seem top-of-mind for the Maha movement as key polling indicates anti-vaccine views are a liability US health officials appear to be shying away from voicing negative views of vaccines in public as November\u2019s midterm elections loom and key polling indicates anti-vaccine views are a liability. Health officials have made unprecedented changes to routine vaccine &#8230; <a title=\"US health officials appear to shy away from anti-vaccine talk ahead of midterms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/us-health-officials-appear-to-shy-away-from-anti-vaccine-talk-ahead-of-midterms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US health officials appear to shy away from anti-vaccine talk ahead of midterms\">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-70917","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\/70917","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=70917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}