{"id":145360,"date":"2026-02-25T22:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145360\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:36:16","slug":"surgeon-general-nominee-dodges-senators-questions-on-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/145360\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon General Nominee Dodges Senators\u2019 Questions on Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Surgeon General Nominee Dodges Senators\u2019 Questions on Vaccines<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Surgeon General Nominee Dodges Senators\u2019 Questions on VaccinesDr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer and supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., deflected questions about vaccines during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cWould you encourage other mothers to have their children vaccinated against measles with the MMR vaccine?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m supportive of vaccination. I do believe that each patient, mother or parent needs to have a conversation with their pediatrician about any medication they\u2019re putting in their body or their children\u2019s bodies.\u201d You\u2019re the nation\u2019s doctor, would you encourage her to have her child vaccinated?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not an individual\u2019s doctor, and every individual needs to talk to their doctor before putting a medication in their body.\u201d \u201cSecretary Kennedy stated, quote, \u2018There is no evidence, no evidence, that the flu vaccine prevents serious disease or that it prevents hospitalization or deaths in children. Do you agree with that statement?\u201d \u201cSenator Kaine, as I\u2019ve said, I believe vaccines save lives.\u201d \u201cDo you believe that there\u2019s no evidence that there\u2019s \u2014 the flu vaccine has efficacy in reducing serious injury or hospitalization?\u201d \u201cI, I \u2014\u201d \u201cThis is an easy one, Doctor. This is an easy one.\u201d \u201cI support the C.D.C.\u2019s guidance on the flu vaccine. Anti-vaccine rhetoric has never been a part of my message. I don\u2019t mention the word vaccine in my book. This is not a part of my core message. I am not here to complicate the issue on vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr. Casey Means sitting in a congressional hearing room.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/25dc-surgeon-general-jlwt-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer and supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., deflected questions about vaccines during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health Committee.<\/p>\n<p>By Christina Kelso<\/p>\n<p>February 25, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Surgeon General Nominee Dodges Senators\u2019 Questions on Vaccines transcript Back transcript Surgeon General Nominee Dodges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60953,858,9,11,10,21559,855,4510,60954],"class_list":["post-145360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-casey-means","tag-congress","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","tag-senate","tag-us-politics","tag-vaccines-immunization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}