{"id":33434,"date":"2021-03-30T12:30:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33434"},"modified":"2021-03-30T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:30:21","slug":"biden-calls-on-states-to-keep-mask-mandates-pause-reopenings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33434","title":{"rendered":"Biden calls on states to keep mask mandates, pause reopenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccinations are going at a solid clip, but we\u2019re not out of the woods yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hhvmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvvsvmcq_fygdjjhshwdndgqjrdbb.html?a=&amp;b=37964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hhvmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvvsvmcq_fygdjjhshwdndgqjrdbb.html?a%3D%26b%3D37964&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1617144949944000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGVS9Enw-zEa9BcC5OQ92fHts-eVA\">President Biden<\/a>\u00a0on Monday urged state and local officials to reconsider lifting their coronavirus restrictions and to reinstate mask mandates that have lapsed as the U.S. faces an increase in cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m reiterating my call for every governor, mayor and local leader to maintain and reinstate the mask mandate,&#8221; Biden said at an event intended to highlight the rapid increase in vaccine eligibility. &#8220;Please, this is not politics. Reinstate the mandate if you let it down.<\/p>\n<p>Asked later if some states should pause reopening efforts, Biden said &#8220;yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>States have aggressively started lifting mask mandates and easing restrictions on businesses and events in recent weeks as vaccine availability steadily increases, prompting concern from some in the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccinations are going at a solid&#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-33434","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\/33434","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=33434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33435,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434\/revisions\/33435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}