{"id":17504,"date":"2017-11-06T20:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T10:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17504"},"modified":"2024-06-29T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T00:58:33","slug":"doctors-advise-mothers-on-measles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17504","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Advise Mothers On Measles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DoctorsAdviseMothersOnMeasles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17505\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/DoctorsAdviseMothersOnMeasles-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"Doctors Advise Mothers On Measles\" width=\"725\" height=\"1265\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo in 1962,<br \/>\n&#8230;as per the Chief Health Officer of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Health, when a child had the measles, the concern was about boredom; about having games to play; about having clean linen and pajamas and plumped-up pillows, to make the child comfortable during routine recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Starkly absent: fear, or worry.<\/p>\n<p>But then, that approach does not engender blind panic amongst the ill-informed and sell lots of vaccines, does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So in 1962, &#8230;as per the Chief Health Officer of Minneapolis and the Minnesota Department of Health, when a child had the measles, the concern was about boredom; about having games to play; about having clean linen and pajamas and plumped-up pillows, to make the child comfortable during routine recovery. Starkly absent: fear, or worry. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctors Advise Mothers On Measles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51721,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions\/51721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}