{"id":30328,"date":"2021-01-03T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30328"},"modified":"2021-01-03T15:37:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:37:38","slug":"u-s-passes-350000-covid-19-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30328","title":{"rendered":"U.S. passes 350,000 COVID-19 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has passed the milestone of 350,000 COVID-19 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data, even as vaccinations against the coronavirus-caused disease get off to a slow start.<\/p>\n<p>More than 350,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 so far, and health officials worry that number is going to keep spiking.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. hit the deadly landmark early Sunday morning, according to data gathered by Johns Hopkins University. More than 20 million people have been infected so far.<\/p>\n<p>As countries around the world tighten lockdowns, impose curfews, ban large get-togethers and even halt alcohol sales to tackle a surge in coronavirus cases, officials in India and the U.S. announced some progress toward expanded immunization campaigns as infections rates continued to climb on multiple continents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has passed the&#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":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328","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=30328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30331,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328\/revisions\/30331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}