{"id":121456,"date":"2021-05-05T14:26:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121456"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:26:54","slug":"covid-19-white-house-wants-70-adults-to-have-first-covid-shot-by-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121456","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: White House wants 70% adults to have first Covid shot by July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/W.-House-wants-70-adults-to-have-first-Covid-shot-by-July-4.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/W.-House-wants-70-adults-to-have-first-Covid-shot-by-July-4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; President Joe Biden wants 70 percent of adults in the US to have received at least one shot of the Covid-19 vaccine by the July 4 Independence Day holiday, the White House said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Administration officials who asked not to be identified said Biden would announce the ambitious goal in a speech later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to getting 70 percent at least partially vaccinated, Biden wants \u201c160 million Americans fully vaccinated\u201d by the same date, an official told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One senior official said reaching the target in just 60 days was \u201cnot easy but we know we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States is already \u201cfar ahead of where anyone thought we would be in our war\u201d on the Covid virus, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting the goal, which would mean overcoming stubborn pockets of vaccine hesitancy, will significantly change the way Americans experience their summer, another official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are \u201cgoing to be far less public health restrictions.\u201d &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; President Joe Biden wants 70 percent of adults in the US to have received at least one shot of the Covid-19 vaccine by the July 4 Independence Day holiday, the White House said Tuesday. Administration officials who asked not to be identified said Biden would announce the ambitious goal in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}