{"id":33188,"date":"2021-03-22T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33188"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:56:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:56:41","slug":"cdc-director-warns-of-avoidable-surge-of-covid-19-amid-relaxing-precautions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33188","title":{"rendered":"CDC director warns of &#8216;avoidable surge&#8217; of COVID-19 amid relaxing precautions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ahlsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmmdhdyt_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a=&amp;b=37768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ahlsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmmdhdyt_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a%3D%26b%3D37768&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616539376381000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGw5dO5NEf0oXiqgzLHaYkj9pWmtw\">Rochelle Walensky<\/a>\u00a0on Monday warned of an &#8220;avoidable surge&#8221; in COVID-19 cases if people do not take sufficient precautions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must find the fortitude to hang in there for just a little bit longer,&#8221; Walensky said during a White House press briefing. &#8220;We are at a critical point in this pandemic, a fork in the road, where we as a country must decide which path we are going to take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Europe is seeing a new wave of cases as it struggles with a slower pace of vaccinations and with more infectious variants of the virus. Walensky pointed to the rise of the variants and said a similar situation could play out here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must act now and I am worried that if we don&#8217;t take the right actions now, we will have another avoidable surge just as we are seeing in Europe right now and just as we are so aggressively scaling up vaccination,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Down in Miami, they\u2019re not heeding all the warnings:\u00a0<\/strong>Walensky\u2019s comments come as crowds of people on spring break flock to South Florida, forcing the city of Miami Beach to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wgzzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmddvgvwz_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a=&amp;b=37768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wgzzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmddvgvwz_hfqvccbqbzvwvwscqwvm.html?a%3D%26b%3D37768&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616539376381000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEHOLot6OhdzJ4VsKP5cLcL-T28RQ\">extend<\/a>\u00a0a curfew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#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-33188","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\/33188","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=33188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33189,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33188\/revisions\/33189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}