{"id":26086,"date":"2023-09-11T19:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/?p=26086"},"modified":"2023-09-12T00:11:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:11:10","slug":"ncl-applauds-fda-for-its-latest-decision-to-approve-an-updated-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/ncl-applauds-fda-for-its-latest-decision-to-approve-an-updated-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"NCL applauds FDA for its latest decision to approve an updated COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 11, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Melody Merin, melodym@nclnet.org, 202-207-2831<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington, DC \u2013 The NCL applauds the FDA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-takes-action-updated-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-better-protect-against-currently-circulating\">announcement<\/a> approving the latest COVID vaccine, which will be available to many Americans immediately or very soon to patients who are eligible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 9,000 COVID-19 hospital admissions in the week ending July 29, a 12.5-percent increase from the week before. While that\u2019s far below the nearly 45,000 admissions recorded the same week a year ago, the new vaccine is nevertheless is welcome and much needed to keep COVID and its new variants in check. The percentage of emergency department patients diagnosed with COVID-19 has risen gradually in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCL applauds the FDA\u2019s announcement approving the latest COVID vaccine, which will be available to many Americans immediately or very soon to patients who are eligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[287,16,315],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26086"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27090,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26086\/revisions\/27090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}