{"id":364784,"date":"2026-10-05T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364784\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:45:43","slug":"hochul-declares-state-disaster-emergency-over-measles-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364784\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul declares State Disaster Emergency over measles cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With measles cases in New York state nearly double what they were last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday is declaring a State Disaster Emergency.<\/p>\n<p>That will allow healthcare professionals to to take additional steps to get more New Yorkers vaccinated and tested.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, there have been seven confirmed cases in the city and 85 statewide, nearly double last year&#8217;s total of 48. The year before that, there were 29.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s health commissioner, Dr. James McDonald, joined &#8220;Mornings On 1&#8221; to discuss the rise in cases.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With measles cases in New York state nearly double what they were last year, Gov. Kathy Hochul on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2274,2275,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,380,200],"class_list":["post-364784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364784","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=364784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}