{"id":40308,"date":"2021-09-22T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40308"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T00:02:09","slug":"average-daily-covid-19-deaths-highest-since-early-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40308","title":{"rendered":"Average daily COVID-19 deaths highest since early March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average number of daily COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has increased to its highest level since early March, as the highly contagious delta variant infects individuals nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is seeing an average of more than 1,900 COVID-19 deaths a day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University cited by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nfjjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqykytkj_xssdrrhvhtdbhvhrgvvp.html?a=&amp;b=42587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nfjjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqykytkj_xssdrrhvhtdbhvhrgvvp.html?a%3D%26b%3D42587&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632436999500000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhL1arL54apdFHeiLNjgEd3dwIqw\">The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The average number of deaths has risen 40 percent over the past two weeks, the AP noted, increasing from 1,387 to 1,947.<\/p>\n<p>The increased statistics come as the delta variant spreads throughout the U.S., posing a threat to communities nationwide \u2014 especially pockets of the country that are largely unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the recent COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths have been among unvaccinated individuals, bolstering evidence that the shots are effective in protecting against serious illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average number of daily COVID-19&#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-40308","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\/40308","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=40308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40309,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40308\/revisions\/40309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}