{"id":30834,"date":"2021-01-19T16:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30834"},"modified":"2021-01-19T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T00:27:51","slug":"us-passes-400000-coronavirus-deaths-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30834","title":{"rendered":"US passes 400,000 coronavirus deaths today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-public-health-tulsa-oklahoma-florida-56b56d4848bbe5b41060e7b3a5e459bb\">U.S. death toll from the coronavirus has topped 400,000\u00a0<\/a>in the final hours of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency. The milestone comes almost exactly a year after health officials diagnosed the nation\u2019s first case of the virus, and after months of efforts by Trump to downplay the threat and his administration\u2019s responsibility to confront it. The number of dead is about equal to the population of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Tampa, Florida; or New Orleans. It is just short of the estimated 409,000 Americans who died in 2019 of strokes, Alzheimer\u2019s, diabetes, flu and pneumonia combined. By week\u2019s end, the toll will probably surpass the number of Americans killed in World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0U.S. death toll from the coronavirus&#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-30834","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\/30834","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=30834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30835,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834\/revisions\/30835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}