{"id":47994,"date":"2021-03-25T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47994"},"modified":"2021-03-25T12:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:36:45","slug":"florida-gov-desantis-to-eliminate-age-restrictions-for-covid-19-vaccine-everyone-18-eligible-on-april-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/03\/florida-gov-desantis-to-eliminate-age-restrictions-for-covid-19-vaccine-everyone-18-eligible-on-april-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. DeSantis to eliminate age restrictions for COVID-19 vaccine, Everyone 18+ eligible on April 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday he will eliminate the age restriction for the COVID vaccine as of April 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42765\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, as of Monday&nbsp;anyone 40 and older&nbsp;can make an appointment for the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And starting&nbsp;April 5, anyone 18 and older can apply for an appointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Florida&#8217;s Senior First vaccine strategy is paying off,&#8221; DeSantis said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JkeegOCwlPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video&nbsp;<\/a>announcing the decision. He said&nbsp;more than 3.2&nbsp;million people 65 and older, or over 70% of the state&#8217;s seniors, have been vaccinated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result of those efforts, DeSantis said, is that&nbsp;&#8220;hospitalizations and case rates for seniors have plummeted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday he will eliminate the age restriction for the COVID vaccine as of April 5. Meanwhile, as of Monday&nbsp;anyone 40 and older&nbsp;can make an appointment&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}