{"id":241478,"date":"2021-12-21T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=241478"},"modified":"2021-12-21T14:47:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:47:50","slug":"biden-pledges-500-million-free-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=241478","title":{"rendered":"Biden Pledges 500 million free COVID-19 tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_241479\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241479\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-241479\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-test-kit-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-test-kit-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-test-kit-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-test-kit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/coronavirus-test-kit-262x175.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-241479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden is announcing plans to deliver 500 million free COVID-19 tests to Americans, increase support for hospitals and expand the availability of vaccines to confront a winter surge of coronavirus cases driven by the fast-spreading omicron variant. Biden said in a speech to the nation Tuesday that it&#8217;s Americans&#8217; \u201cpatriotic duty,&#8221; as well as a wise medical step, to get vaccinated. The world is facing a second straight holiday season with COVID-19. Scientists know vaccination should offer strong protections against severe illness and death. Biden&#8217;s top medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says the Democratic president will issue \u201ca stark warning of what the winter will look like\u201d for unvaccinated Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden is announcing plans to deliver 500 million free COVID-19 tests to Americans, increase support for hospitals and expand the availability of vaccines to confront a winter surge of coronavirus cases driven by the fast-spreading omicron variant. Biden said in a speech to the nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":232304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241482,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241478\/revisions\/241482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}