{"id":49462,"date":"2015-02-01T17:27:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/01\/the-health-statistics-where-mississippi-and-west-virginia-lead-the-us.html"},"modified":"2015-02-01T17:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:27:02","slug":"the-health-statistics-where-mississippi-and-west-virginia-lead-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/01\/the-health-statistics-where-mississippi-and-west-virginia-lead-the-us.html","title":{"rendered":"The health statistics where Mississippi and West Virginia lead the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neither state is known for great health stats. Mississippi, in particular, is poor, and has childhood disease and mortality rates to prove it. Except in one area: neither state allows a personal belief exemption to childhood immuniizations, and both states have avoided <i>any<\/i> outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, etc., unlike their neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>So, of course, anti-vaxxers are trying to change that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/storyline\/wp\/2015\/01\/30\/mississippi-yes-mississippi-has-the-nations-best-child-vaccination-rate-heres-why\/?postshare=831422736624165'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/rI0wriGGhDELH3j9fdH2upiK7t8ECC7_D66sjtkxISpQPizjV1xbs96pck64Q-RFGEox5vf1Y17lf21B2HsVo9l-kTMS8oJ_QiJbRGC6oosr0RV07OXoktxJ5M7svPGp7olV1_W4OLt-k1BXj4ucFWY=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/storyline\/wp\/2015\/01\/30\/mississippi-yes-mississippi-has-the-nations-best-child-vaccination-rate-heres-why\/?postshare=831422736624165'>Mississippi &ndash; yes, Mississippi &ndash; has the nation&rsquo;s best child vaccination rate. Here&rsquo;s why.<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nPublic health trumps personal choice in Mississippi. But the program&rsquo;s success is under threat.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/AffDDtBSoY1'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither state is known for great health stats. Mississippi, in particular, is poor, and has childhood disease and mortality rates to prove it. Except in one area: neither state allows a personal belief exemption to childhood immuniizations, and both states have avoided any outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, etc., unlike their neighbors. So, of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/01\/the-health-statistics-where-mississippi-and-west-virginia-lead-the-us.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The health statistics where Mississippi and West Virginia lead the US&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32305,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/gov-phil-bryant-r-miss-is-a-dolt-let-them-eat-ers-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":49462,"position":0},"title":"Gov. Phil Bryant (R-Miss.) Is a Dolt (Let Them Eat ERs Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Jan-13 10:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Crikey. Yet another clueless (or intentionally obtuse) GOP politician who thinks just because poor people can go to the ER and hospitals have to treat them regardless of ability to pay (something that drastically increases hospital costs for everyone else and, thus, insurance costs), that everyone has \"health care.\"Hey, Phil\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23563,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/mississippi-i-salute-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":49462,"position":1},"title":"Mississippi, I salute you","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Nov-11 9:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I really didn't think Mississippi had it in them when it came to defeating that godawful Personhood Amendment.I was wrong.Now, maybe it's all just a setup for something even worse, but I'll take the national victory where I can get it. #ddtb Embedded Link Mississippi Voters Reject Personhood Amendment Mississippi\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":47958,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/08\/margies-kitchen-southern-corn-bread-mississippi-style.html","url_meta":{"origin":49462,"position":2},"title":"Margie&#8217;s Kitchen: Southern Corn bread (Mississippi Style)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Nov-14 5:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie's Kitchen: Southern Corn bread (Mississippi Style) http:\/\/bit.ly\/114Qwc7 #recipe View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23512,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/that-mississippi-she-is-a-mystery-shes-just-a-waitin-there-to-be-explored.html","url_meta":{"origin":49462,"position":3},"title":"That Mississippi, she is a mystery, she&#39;s just a-waitin&#39; there to be explored&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Nov-11 5:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That Mississippi, she is a mystery, she's just a-waitin' there to be explored ...Making a note of this for my next trip to Disneyland. #ddtb Embedded Link Ahoy! Earn Your Pilot\u2019s License on Disneyland\u2019s Mark Twain Riverboat | The Disney Blog","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthedisneyblog.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F11%2Fmeganprine-twain-500x355.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":135104,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/mississippi-school-changes-name-davis-obama.html","url_meta":{"origin":49462,"position":4},"title":"Mississippi school changes name from &#8220;Davis&#8221; to &#8220;Obama&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-17 9:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Davis International Baccalaureate Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi is changing, after a student body vote, from being named after Jefferson Davis to being named after Barack Obama. Generally I oppose naming things after live people, but I can't deny that the nominclature is a significant upgrade, esp. in a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Barack-Obama.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":133765,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/when-your-ostensibly-conservative-plan-loses-mississippi.html","url_meta":{"origin":49462,"position":5},"title":"When your ostensibly conservative plan loses Mississippi","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Jun-17 5:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump's \"Voter Suppression Fraud\" Commission has run into immediate trouble, having told all 50 states to send in detailed information on their voter roles -- names, birthdates, addresses, party, SSN-4, and voting record.So far more than twenty states have declined to do so. More than a dozen others have said\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}