{"id":9307,"date":"2021-03-25T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=9307"},"modified":"2021-03-25T12:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:36:29","slug":"florida-gov-desantis-to-eliminate-age-restrictions-for-covid-19-vaccine-everyone-18-eligible-on-april-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/03\/25\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8555\" width=\"330\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DESANTIS.jpg 1140w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, as of Monday&nbsp;anyone 40 and older&nbsp;can make an appointment for the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And starting&nbsp;April 5, anyone 18 and older can apply for an appointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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":1,"featured_media":8555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}