{"id":30535,"date":"2021-01-08T17:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30535"},"modified":"2021-01-08T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:21:39","slug":"fda-chief-urges-states-to-allow-vaccination-of-lower-priority-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30535","title":{"rendered":"FDA chief urges states to allow vaccination of lower-priority groups\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday urged states to allow lower-priority groups to get vaccinated against COVID-19 if their doses would otherwise go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>FDA Commissioner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bcjbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpdcbppp_bzqpggflfypqpdpjqczf.html?a=&amp;b=36035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bcjbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpdcbppp_bzqpggflfypqpdpjqczf.html?a%3D%26b%3D36035&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1610234019675000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9sDhDVpbG1gAI3nymVNfSHUWLug\">Stephen Hahn<\/a>\u00a0told reporters he thinks the federal guidelines for vaccination, which recommend starting with health workers and nursing home staff and employees, make sense.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hahn said he thinks &#8220;it&#8217;s reasonable&#8221; to expand the groups, and not get too fixated on finishing one before moving on to others, such as essential workers, first responders or people over the age of 65.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate goal is to vaccinate as many people as possible, Hahn said, and in cases where people may be hesitant to get a shot, it doesn&#8217;t make sense to keep those doses on a shelf or let them go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would strongly encourage that we move forward with giving states the opportunity to be more expansive in who they can give the vaccine to,&#8221; Hahn said during an Alliance for Health Policy event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Food and&#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-30535","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\/30535","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=30535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30536,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30535\/revisions\/30536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}