{"id":143,"date":"2026-04-30T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/?p=143"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:00:32","slug":"abc7-eyewitness-news-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2026\/04\/30\/abc7-eyewitness-news-xx\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC7 EYEWITNESS NEWS &#8211; New York City Council passes bills aimed at expanding vaccine access, combatting misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">By Eyewitness News<\/mark><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New York City Council passes bills aimed at expanding vaccine access, combatting misinformation\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kNUBY6n5EJQ?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK CITY (WABC) &#8212; The New York City Council has passed a package of bills aimed at combatting vaccine misinformation, and expanding access to shots across the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measures require the health department to work with schools to distribute clear information to parents about how vaccines work, their safety, and where to get them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another bill calls for a city-wide public education campaign targeting childhood and teen vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The push comes as vaccine policy and messaging have drawn increased national attention, including from the Trump administration and federal health officials<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to story: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/new-york-city-council-passes-bills-aimed-combating-vaccine-misinformation-expanding-access\/19007313\/?userab=kabc_content_recs-577*variant_a_control-2480%2Cotv_web_content_rec-539*variant_c_trending-2268%2Cotv_search_page_design_unification-546*variant_a_control-2299%2Cabcn_popular_reads_exp-542*variant_b_7days_filter-2288\">https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/new-york-city-council-passes-bills-aimed-combating-vaccine-misinformation-expanding-access\/19007313\/?userab=kabc_content_recs-577*variant_a_control-2480%2Cotv_web_content_rec-539*variant_c_trending-2268%2Cotv_search_page_design_unification-546*variant_a_control-2299%2Cabcn_popular_reads_exp-542*variant_b_7days_filter-2288<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eyewitness News<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK CITY (WABC) &#8212; The New York City Council has passed a package of bills aimed at combatting vaccine misinformation, and expanding access to shots across the city.<\/p>\n<p>The measures require the health department to work with schools to distribute clear information to parents about how vaccines work, their safety, and where to get them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/2026\/04\/30\/abc7-eyewitness-news-xx\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/lynn-schulman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}