{"id":33744,"date":"2021-04-08T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33744"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T21:39:45","slug":"cdc-director-says-racism-is-serious-public-health-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=33744","title":{"rendered":"CDC director says racism is &#8216;serious public health threat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday declared racism a &#8220;serious public health threat,&#8221; becoming the largest federal agency to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Confronting the impact of racism will not be easy,\u201d CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a statement published on the agency\u2019s website. \u201cI know that we can do this if we work together. I certainly hope you will lean in and join me.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control 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-33744","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\/33744","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=33744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33745,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33744\/revisions\/33745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}