{"id":48196,"date":"2022-05-12T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48196"},"modified":"2022-05-12T17:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:55:56","slug":"flags-to-fly-at-half-staff-to-mark-1m-covid-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48196","title":{"rendered":"FLAGS TO FLY AT HALF-STAFF TO MARK 1M COVID DEATHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden ordered\u00a0flags at half-staff Thursday to commemorate the deaths of<br \/>\n1 million Americans who lost their lives to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Biden released a statement Thursday morning honoring those who have died in the U.S. over the last two years of the pandemic.\u00a0He is also set to address a global COVID-19 summit later in the day in a pre-recorded statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Various COVID-19 trackers have different totals for the number of Americans who have died from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NBC News has compiled data showing more than 1 million Americans have already been lost to COVID-19, while Johns Hopkins University\u2019s tracker has the number at slightly above 998,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the U.S. hovers around the 1 million deaths mark, cases are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27697188.27117\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvaGVhbHRoY2FyZS9vdmVybmlnaHRzLzMyNjQ1NDQtaGVhbHRoLWNhcmUtd2hhdHMtZGlmZmVyZW50LWFib3V0LXRoZS1uZXctY292aWQtY2FzZS1pbmNyZWFzZS8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB5075b252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27697188.27117\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvaGVhbHRoY2FyZS9vdmVybmlnaHRzLzMyNjQ1NDQtaGVhbHRoLWNhcmUtd2hhdHMtZGlmZmVyZW50LWFib3V0LXRoZS1uZXctY292aWQtY2FzZS1pbmNyZWFzZS8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB5075b252&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652483138454000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2EcM3-ZKXMkIEhP4wkKk_x\">beginning to rise<\/a>\u00a0again across the U.S., though experts are not panicking due to the nature of the omicron subvariant known as BA.2 and widespread immunity provided by vaccines and antibodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden ordered\u00a0flags at half-staff Thursday&#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-48196","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\/48196","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=48196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48197,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48196\/revisions\/48197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}