{"id":40438,"date":"2021-09-24T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40438"},"modified":"2021-09-24T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:55:03","slug":"biden-urges-booster-for-eligible-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40438","title":{"rendered":"BIDEN URGES BOOSTER FOR ELIGIBLE ADULTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/aytsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmklhdky_cqltccpdpftlpdcddjtj.html?a=&amp;b=42693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/aytsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmklhdky_cqltccpdpftlpdcddjtj.html?a%3D%26b%3D42693&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632609368707000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF8xih6oHcBNNMDn7uWdOwPHEM01Q\">President Biden<\/a>\u00a0on Friday urged older Americans, front-line workers and those with underlying health conditions who received a Pfizer coronavirus vaccine between January and March to get a booster shot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This week, as planned, we took a key step in protecting the vaccinated with booster shots, which our top government doctors believe provides the highest level of protection available to date,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;The booster shot is free and easily accessible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden said up to 60 million Americans will soon be eligible, and 20 million Americans are eligible today.<\/p>\n<p>Doses will be available nationwide at more than 80,000 locations, including more than 40,000 pharmacies, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about non-Pfizer recipients? They\u2019re left waiting.\u00a0<\/strong>While acknowledging most Americans who received a Pfizer shot are eligible for a booster, Biden urged people who received the Moderna and Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine to be patient.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My message for you is this: You still have a high degree of protection. Our doctors and scientists are working day and night analyzing the data from those two organizations on whether and when you need a booster shot, and we&#8217;ll provide updates for you as the process moves ahead,&#8221; Biden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u00a0on Friday urged older Americans,&#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-40438","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\/40438","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=40438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40439,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40438\/revisions\/40439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}