{"id":30390,"date":"2021-01-05T17:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30390"},"modified":"2021-01-05T17:49:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:49:26","slug":"surgeon-general-tells-states-not-to-let-priority-guidelines-slow-vaccinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30390","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon general tells states not to let priority guidelines slow vaccinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon General Jerome Adams doesn\u2019t want states slowing down vaccinations out of an overly cautious desire to do them in the exact right order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour headline today really should be, \u2018Surgeon General tells states and governors to move quickly to other priority groups,\u2019\u201d Adams said on NBC. \u201cIf the demand isn&#8217;t there in 1a, go to 1b, and continue on down. And if the demand isn&#8217;t there in one location, move those vaccines to another location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1a and 1b priority groups are set by a CDC advisory committee: 1a is health care workers and nursing home residents, 1b is people over 75 and front-line essential workers, and the list continues down the line of prioritization.<\/p>\n<p><em>Big picture, vaccinations still lagging<\/em>:\u00a0According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracker, only about 4.8 million out of about 17 million vaccines distributed have actually been administered so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon General Jerome Adams doesn\u2019t want&#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-30390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30390","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=30390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30391,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30390\/revisions\/30391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}