{"id":29797,"date":"2020-12-07T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29797"},"modified":"2020-12-07T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:41:34","slug":"fauci-christmas-could-be-worse-than-thanksgiving-for-covid-19-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29797","title":{"rendered":"Fauci: Christmas could be worse than Thanksgiving for COVID-19 spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top infectious diseases expert\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vvvmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfrhmprk_zzmrsspmpkrlzwpdlrrr.html?a=&amp;b=35366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vvvmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfrhmprk_zzmrsspmpkrlzwpdlrrr.html?a%3D%26b%3D35366&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607472793509000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHnXxYzFhx-B4RVrtBd9Ir6TkbTzQ\">Anthony Fauci<\/a>\u00a0said Monday that Christmas could be worse than Thanksgiving for COVID-19 spread in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy concerns&#8230; are the same thing of the concerns that I had about Thanksgiving, only this may be even more compounded because it\u2019s a longer holiday,\u201d he said on CNN&#8217;s \u201cNew Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci noted that Thanksgiving celebrations tend to be shorter as people return to work the following week, but Christmas leads into New Year\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it can be even more of a challenge than what we saw with Thanksgiving,\u201d Fauci said. \u201cSo I hope that people realize that and understand that as difficult as this is, nobody wants to modify, if not, essentially shut down, their holiday season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019re at a very critical time in this country right now,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to not walk away from the facts and the data. This is tough going for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top infectious diseases expert\u00a0Anthony Fauci\u00a0said Monday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29798,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29797\/revisions\/29798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}