{"id":136252,"date":"2026-01-29T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/136252\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:14:08","slug":"jacksonville-chief-health-officer-stresses-vaccine-safety-announces-free-immunization-clinic-amid-recent-measles-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/136252\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville chief health officer stresses vaccine safety, announces free immunization clinic amid recent measles cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORNING SHOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Measles was virtually eliminated in the United States, but it is making a comeback globally, in the United States, and here in Florida.<br \/>\nRecent reports of measles cases have reignited the debate over vaccinations for school-aged children. The City of Jacksonville Chief Health Officer, Dr. Sunil Joshi, joined News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton on The Morning Show. He\u00a0said because of declining vaccination rates, there is a concern that the very contagious measles virus may continue to spread.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORNING SHOW Measles was virtually eliminated in the United States, but it is making a comeback globally, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[571,61569,116,118,117,17196,5436],"class_list":["post-136252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-health","tag-healthier-tomorrow","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-measles","tag-morning-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}