{"id":851,"date":"2021-03-31T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/news\/?p=851"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:21:02","slug":"walensky-america-at-critical-moment-fighting-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/2021\/03\/31\/walensky-america-at-critical-moment-fighting-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Walensky: America at &#8216;critical moment&#8217; fighting virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rochelle Walensky, the head of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a briefing on Wednesday that positive coronavirus cases have jumped 12% since the previous week, marking a &#8220;critical moment&#8221; in America&#8217;s fight against the pandemic,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In regards to vaccination, Dr. Walensky pointed out that the data from CDC so far &#8220;suggest that vaccinated people do not carry the virus&#8221;, meaning once a person gets a shot, he can not be a carrier of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The head of CDC also shared that the COVID-19 variant, originating in the United Kingdom is now predominant in at least 5 regions in the US as it accounts for 26% of all positive tests. The mutant is about 15-17% more transmissible, therefore because some states are not following health recommendations, the government is expecting a spike in cases soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochelle Walensky, the head of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a briefing on Wednesday that positive coronavirus cases have jumped 12% since the previous week, marking a &#8220;critical moment&#8221; in America&#8217;s fight against the pandemic, In regards to vaccination, Dr. Walensky pointed out that the data from CDC so far &#8220;suggest that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}