{"id":71244,"date":"2026-04-09T06:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/as-rfk-jr-allies-hailed-mississippis-rollback-of-strict-school-vaccine-rules-whooping-cough-surged-and-a-baby-died\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:57:13","slug":"as-rfk-jr-allies-hailed-mississippis-rollback-of-strict-school-vaccine-rules-whooping-cough-surged-and-a-baby-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/as-rfk-jr-allies-hailed-mississippis-rollback-of-strict-school-vaccine-rules-whooping-cough-surged-and-a-baby-died\/","title":{"rendered":"As RFK Jr allies hailed Mississippi\u2019s rollback of strict school vaccine rules, whooping cough surged and a baby died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign to change the rules was years in the making, orchestrated in part by two men with close ties to US health secretary RFK Jr<\/p>\n<p>When a federal judge in Mississippi ordered a sweeping rollback of the state\u2019s strict school vaccine rules in 2023, the ruling hit some doctors like \u201ca gut punch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi had for years achieved some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7202a2.htm?s_cid=mm7202a2_w#:~:text=Nationally%2C%202-dose,to%208.5%25%20%5BWisconsin%5D).\">highest vaccination rates<\/a> in the US for <a href=\"https:\/\/petrieflom.law.harvard.edu\/2015\/02\/05\/rdsilvermanmsvax\/\">children<\/a> \u2013 a point of pride in a place that consistently ranks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/jmsma.scholasticahq.com\/article\/140455-mississippi-s-long-running-poor-health-care-performance-malignant-neglect-or-complacency\">bottom of other health measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/apr\/09\/rfk-jr-mississippi-rollback-school-vaccine-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign to change the rules was years in the making, orchestrated in part by two men with close ties to US health secretary RFK Jr When a federal judge in Mississippi ordered a sweeping rollback of the state\u2019s strict school vaccine rules in 2023, the ruling hit some doctors like \u201ca gut punch\u201d. Mississippi &#8230; <a title=\"As RFK Jr allies hailed Mississippi\u2019s rollback of strict school vaccine rules, whooping cough surged and a baby died\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/as-rfk-jr-allies-hailed-mississippis-rollback-of-strict-school-vaccine-rules-whooping-cough-surged-and-a-baby-died\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about As RFK Jr allies hailed Mississippi\u2019s rollback of strict school vaccine rules, whooping cough surged and a baby died\">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-71244","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\/71244","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=71244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}