{"id":38468,"date":"2021-08-05T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38468"},"modified":"2021-08-05T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T01:05:03","slug":"biden-administration-sees-significant-rise-in-vaccinations-as-cases-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38468","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration sees &#8216;significant&#8217; rise in vaccinations as cases surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top White House officials highlighted a significant rise in vaccination rates on Thursday as the U.S. endures surging COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, especially in Florida and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The national vaccination rate reached its highest level since early last month with 864,000 doses administered, White House coronavirus response coordinator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/omwmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntzwtmzq_vfgfhhpvpnfgvmvrfrkv.html?a=&amp;b=41277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/omwmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntzwtmzq_vfgfhhpvpnfgvmvrfrkv.html?a%3D%26b%3D41277&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628287707810000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH3E0GsSdXaQkijrTmI70fCXTj3qQ\">Jeff Zients<\/a>\u00a0told reporters. About 585,000 of those doses were the patients&#8217; first shots, suggesting more unvaccinated people are getting the jab.<\/p>\n<p>Zients stated that the vaccination rates in Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi have hit levels not seen since April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImportantly, we&#8217;re seeing the most significant increases in the states with the highest case rates,\u201d Zients said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But:\u00a0<\/strong>The rise in vaccinations comes as the country struggles with COVID-19 \u2014 almost 83 percent of counties have \u201csubstantial\u201d or \u201chigh\u201d viral transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Seven states with some of the lowest vaccination rates account for about half of new cases and hospitalizations this week, even though they make up less than a quarter of the population, Zients said.<\/p>\n<p>Florida and Texas make up one-third of the U.S.\u2019s new cases and more than one-third of the country\u2019s new hospitalizations over the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top White House officials highlighted a&#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-38468","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\/38468","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=38468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38469,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468\/revisions\/38469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}