{"id":10741,"date":"2026-02-25T23:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/casey-means-bill-cassidy-face-off-on-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:02:26","slug":"casey-means-bill-cassidy-face-off-on-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/casey-means-bill-cassidy-face-off-on-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon general nominee and senator face off over vaccines and \u2018shared decision-making\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Surgeon general nominee and senator face off over vaccines and \u2018shared decision-making\u2019<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>An eight-minute exchange at the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/25\/casey-means-maha-surgeon-general-hearing-restore-wholeness\/\">Casey Means\u2019 two-hour confirmation<\/a> hearing captured the potential and the predicament the MAHA movement has created for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Means, an entrepreneurial wellness influencer with a medical degree from Stanford, appeared on Wednesday at the Senate health committee to be confirmed as the U.S. surgeon general. She came prepared with testimony focused on the rise of chronic disease and the need for \u201crestoring wholeness for Americans \u2014 physically, mentally, and societally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/25\/casey-means-bill-cassidy-face-off-on-vaccines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elizabeth Cooney<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/25\/casey-means-bill-cassidy-face-off-on-vaccines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon general nominee and senator face off over vaccines and \u2018shared decision-making\u2019 An eight-minute exchange at the end of Casey Means\u2019 two-hour confirmation hearing captured the potential and the predicament the MAHA movement has created for itself. Means, an entrepreneurial wellness influencer with a medical degree from Stanford, appeared on Wednesday at the Senate health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,2158,1428,2144,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronic-disease","category-congress","category-health","category-politics","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}