{"id":274306,"date":"2026-08-29T00:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274306\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T00:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T00:44:06","slug":"measles-role-in-childs-death-ignites-fight-between-rfk-jr-and-josh-shapiro-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274306\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles\u2019 role in child\u2019s death ignites fight between RFK Jr. and Josh Shapiro feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"B6PYUIMYYZF5HDJSBFCHHZCGTI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Minutes before a news conference announcing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/08\/25\/2-measles-related-deaths-reported-pennsylvania-states-first-35-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/08\/25\/2-measles-related-deaths-reported-pennsylvania-states-first-35-years\/\">two measles-related deaths<\/a> in Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) had a heated call with the Trump administration\u2019s top health official.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"225UTU42BJEJBDDKDWVMZFWHDI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Before television cameras on Tuesday, the governor accused Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of sowing confusion about vaccines and contributing to the return of a disease the United States eliminated more than a quarter-century ago. Shapiro said he told Kennedy that the state did not want additional help from the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minutes before a news conference announcing two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) had a heated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-274306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}