{"id":31722,"date":"2021-02-16T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31722"},"modified":"2021-02-16T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:10:06","slug":"the-biden-administration-will-increase-the-number-of-covid-19-vaccine-doses-going-to-states-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31722","title":{"rendered":"The Biden administration will increase the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses going to states this week."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>States will receive 13.6 million doses per week starting this week, White House press secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rjcwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbccjtvlw_jstbvvjrjwbmbjvbqqsj.html?a=&amp;b=36955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rjcwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbccjtvlw_jstbvvjrjwbmbjvbqqsj.html?a%3D%26b%3D36955&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613604200044000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFfiIQPjgYL2WSbxU7AomL2Z9g28Q\">Jen Psaki<\/a>\u00a0told reporters Tuesday. The current shipment is about 11 million doses.<\/p>\n<p>That marks a 57 percent increase over the amount states were getting when Biden first took office, Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:\u00a0<\/strong>The increased shipment comes as the U.S. faces more contagious COVID-19 variants.<\/p>\n<p>While case numbers have dipped in recent weeks, experts expect the drop to be temporary.<\/p>\n<p>Governors have been pleading for more vaccine doses, but the administration is limited to how much it can give because of the limited supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States will receive 13.6 million doses&#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-31722","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\/31722","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=31722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31723,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722\/revisions\/31723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}