{"id":38003,"date":"2021-07-22T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38003"},"modified":"2021-07-22T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:42:28","slug":"scalises-comments-get-a-boost-from-fauci-who-praised-the-gop-encouraging-vaccines-as-a-very-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38003","title":{"rendered":"Scalise\u2019s comments get a boost from Fauci, who praised the GOP encouraging vaccines as &#8216;a very good thing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Fauci\u00a0said Republicans who are now encouraging Americans to get vaccinated are doing \u201ca very good thing\u201d to help stop the spread of COVID-19 as well as misinformation about vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Hill, Fauci said he was glad to hear some top GOP leaders be more outspoken in recent days about the importance of receiving a life-saving vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The top immunologist was especially pleased by House Minority Whip\u00a0Steve Scalise\u2019s (R-La.) new remarks. Scalise revealed that he got his initial dose of Pfizer this past weekend,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/inzzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqyhvccbn_bdzpggflfypqlqzzlcfq.html?a=&amp;b=40925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/inzzptgkcyywrtrywbmccwzzcgwqygyffdcktnqyhvccbn_bdzpggflfypqlqzzlcfq.html?a%3D%26b%3D40925&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627079239902000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHfNb-OAdjGxKpox94Q1jiFPHYXeA\">citing an uptick in cases<\/a>\u00a0linked to the delta variant. He called the shot \u201csafe and effective.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Fauci\u00a0said Republicans who are now&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38003","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=38003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38004,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38003\/revisions\/38004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}