{"id":345815,"date":"2026-09-13T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345815\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:04:47","slug":"nyc-health-commissioner-dr-martin-on-legionnaires-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345815\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Martin on Legionnaires&#8217; outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Alistair Martin sits down with NY1&#8217;s Cheryl Wills on this week&#8217;s &#8220;In Focus&#8221; to discuss the potential impact of Medicaid coverage changes, the city&#8217;s response to the recent Legionnaires&#8217; disease outbreak, and the enforcement of cooling tower regulations.<\/p>\n<p>He also addresses vaccine misinformation, emphasizing the safety and effectiveness of the MMR vaccine and confirming that New York City&#8217;s school vaccination requirements remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Alistair Martin sits down with NY1&#8217;s Cheryl Wills on this week&#8217;s &#8220;In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7488,7490,7423,7487,9,24,11,10,200],"class_list":["post-345815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-in-focus","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345815","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=345815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}