{"id":38763,"date":"2021-08-13T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38763"},"modified":"2021-08-13T21:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T04:58:31","slug":"us-reports-nearly-1-million-vaccinations-in-past-day-most-since-early-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38763","title":{"rendered":"US reports nearly 1 million vaccinations in past day, most since early July\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Friday reported almost a million new COVID-19 vaccinations from the previous day&#8217;s total, the biggest one-day tally for vaccinations since early July.<\/p>\n<p>About 918,000 were administered on Friday, according to Cyrus Shapar, the White House&#8217;s COVID-19 data director. The number includes 576,000 people getting their first dose of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The increase signals a rise in the vaccination rate amid a push to get more people shots as the delta variant fuels a surge in cases.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average number of shots per day has jumped from about 500,000 in mid-July to about 700,000. But the latest figures are still well below the peak in April, when more than 3 million shots were being given each day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White House touts number:\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Strongest 24 hours of vaccinations since before July 4th,&#8221; tweeted White House chief of staff\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hwnmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqchmmq_qmsmggswstmfwhhdwvfp.html?a=&amp;b=41458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hwnmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqchmmq_qmsmggswstmfwhhdwvfp.html?a%3D%26b%3D41458&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1629002642724000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFuQJ8MDw8zuc5h_qjx_ygJ8wCboQ\">Ron Klain<\/a>. &#8220;Vaccine requirements and incentives are starting to pay off &#8212; as well as the tragedy of seeing so much needless illness and loss due to Delta&#8217;s impact on the unvaccinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Friday reported&#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-38763","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\/38763","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=38763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38764,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38763\/revisions\/38764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}