{"id":30150,"date":"2020-12-21T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30150"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T00:47:10","slug":"biden-receives-first-dose-of-coronavirus-vaccine-publicly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30150","title":{"rendered":"Biden receives first dose of coronavirus vaccine publicly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lddqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmznqhnh_mpycnnyqylcdwsnpnnqt.html?a=&amp;b=35723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lddqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmznqhnh_mpycnnyqylcdwsnpnnqt.html?a%3D%26b%3D35723&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1608682060514000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFxslMArFZntwD2PGxg4F4fbb4Z0A\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0was vaccinated for the novel coronavirus publicly Monday in a bid to shore up Americans\u2019 confidence in the vaccine as doses are distributed across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Tabe Mase, a nurse practitioner at ChristianaCare hospital in Delaware, administered the first dose of the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNtech to Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared when it\u2019s available to take the vaccine,\u201d Biden, wearing a black face mask, said after receiving the vaccine. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing to worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He thanked front-line health workers and scientists and gave credit to the Trump administration for Operation Warp Speed, the program aimed at speeding the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, and urged Americans to heed the advice of public health experts by wearing masks, social distancing and avoiding travel during the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0was vaccinated for the novel&#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-30150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150","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=30150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30151,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150\/revisions\/30151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}