{"id":219137,"date":"2026-05-04T12:21:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219137\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:21:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:21:52","slug":"new-york-moves-to-keep-control-over-vaccine-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219137\/","title":{"rendered":"New York moves to keep control over vaccine standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Trump administration moves to reduce the number of recommended vaccines for children, New York lawmakers are taking steps to maintain state control over immunization standards.<\/p>\n<p>A bill recently approved in Albany would allow state health officials to set their own vaccine guidelines, even if federal recommendations change.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters say the measure is aimed at protecting public health and ensuring consistent access to vaccines for children.<\/p>\n<p>State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d on Monday to discuss the legislation and what it could mean for families across New York.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Trump administration moves to reduce the number of recommended vaccines for children, New York lawmakers are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2952,2274,116,2953,2275,9,24,49,12,112,63,380,134,136,135,200],"class_list":["post-219137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-health","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-health","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219137","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=219137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}