{"id":38269,"date":"2021-07-30T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38269"},"modified":"2021-07-30T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:38:28","slug":"former-trump-official-says-just-a-matter-of-time-before-unvaccinated-get-delta-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38269","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump official says &#8216;just a matter of time&#8217; before unvaccinated get delta variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Giroir, former\u00a0President Trump\u2019s coronavirus testing czar, on Thursday urged anyone who has not yet gotten vaccinated against COVID-19 to quickly do so, arguing that it is \u201cjust a matter of time\u201d before all unvaccinated individuals become infected with the delta variant of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Trump official,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mytsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqtbqqc_dhttcchphftmpdmshcpt.html?a=&amp;b=41138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mytsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqtbqqc_dhttcchphftmpdmshcpt.html?a%3D%26b%3D41138&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627769969155000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGvP0Lg0p63zYUikg8l5k8XsihEig\">in an interview<\/a>\u00a0on Fox News\u2019s \u201cAmerica Reports,\u201d emphasized health guidance that the potential side effects of the coronavirus vaccine \u201cpale in comparison to what you will get if you get the COVID infection,\u201d adding that the highly transmissible delta variant poses an even greater risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have not been vaccinated, and you have not had COVID before, you will get the delta variant,\u201d Giroir argued. \u201cThis is so infectious that you will get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that while a previous COVID-19 infection may give some natural immunity, it is not clear how long this protection lasts, adding, \u201cThe evidence is mounting that even natural immunity will not protect you against delta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is just a matter of time,\u201d he argued. \u201cRemember, you can get the flu every year. It\u2019s not because your immunity isn\u2019t good, it\u2019s because the flu changes, and delta is really a new strain that is different than everything we\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Giroir, former\u00a0President Trump\u2019s coronavirus testing&#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-38269","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\/38269","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=38269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38270,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38269\/revisions\/38270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}