{"id":37400,"date":"2021-07-07T17:54:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T00:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37400"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T00:54:57","slug":"inside-bidens-pragmatic-approach-to-coronavirus-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37400","title":{"rendered":"Inside Biden&#8217;s pragmatic approach to coronavirus rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ufhmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhqqnpmp_vprfhhpvpnfgvhgykmvj.html?a=&amp;b=40496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ufhmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhqqnpmp_vprfhhpvpnfgvhgykmvj.html?a%3D%26b%3D40496&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625781505831000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHDndA_tP-HzaFmvU9LX2rznejqfg\">President Biden<\/a>\u00a0has taken a decidedly cautious approach to COVID-19 passports and other rules governing the coronavirus, signaling a determination to not get in front of public opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rvjwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrrgtww_vprfhhpvpnfgvhgykmvj.html?a=&amp;b=40496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rvjwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrrgtww_vprfhhpvpnfgvhgykmvj.html?a%3D%26b%3D40496&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1625781505831000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFsqOiGSLr3STQo1e6ymzUsxkmK-g\">avoided<\/a>\u00a0stepping into a messy fight over both passports and coronavirus vaccine mandates, choosing instead to let private sector companies, schools and other institutions make the call on whether to require vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>The move has spurred frustration from some health experts who argue that the administration is missing a critical opportunity to get the virus under control by encouraging vaccine requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question that vaccines are critically important, everyone in America who is able to should get a vaccine and that is the only way we are going to achieve herd immunity,\u201d said Harold Pollack, co-director of the University of Chicago Health Lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a flipside which is, if you get way ahead of public acceptance, that you may on net undermine your public health objectives,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case in point:<\/strong>\u00a0Already, the White House\u2019s announcement that it would go \u201cdoor-to-door\u201d at the community level to boost vaccinations in the coming weeks spurred conservative blowback, a sign of how precarious the issue can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u00a0has taken a decidedly cautious&#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-37400","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\/37400","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=37400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37401,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37400\/revisions\/37401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}