{"id":34690,"date":"2021-04-30T16:19:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34690"},"modified":"2021-04-30T16:19:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T23:19:39","slug":"white-house-100-million-americans-now-fully-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34690","title":{"rendered":"White House: 100 million Americans now fully vaccinated\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House announced Friday that 100 million Americans are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, hailing it as a major achievement in the ongoing vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we reached a major milestone in the number of Americans who are fully vaccinated,&#8221; White House COVID-19 response coordinator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dhsszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwttmjsdh_zsfrsspmpkrlrfdrfpfl.html?a=&amp;b=38794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dhsszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwttmjsdh_zsfrsspmpkrlrfdrfpfl.html?a%3D%26b%3D38794&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1619905873191000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFEMzM7XCOo4lByfT_K9_q9fz5q8A\">Jeff Zients<\/a>\u00a0said at a briefing. &#8220;Today, 100 million Americans are fully vaccinated, nearly double the 55 million who were fully vaccinated at the end of March.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said over 300 million doses have been shipped, and 220 million shots are in arms. &#8220;This represents significant progress and cause for hope,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It could get harder, though<\/strong>: The next phase of the vaccination campaign will be challenging, as it moves toward trying to reach people who are less eager for the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Zients emphasized that officials will be working to make it even easier to get a shot, and building confidence in the vaccine. For example, officials in many places are allowing people to get a shot without an appointment as supply increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House announced Friday that&#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-34690","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\/34690","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=34690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34691,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34690\/revisions\/34691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}