{"id":5669,"date":"2021-07-23T15:45:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T15:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2021-07-23T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T15:45:36","slug":"alabama-governor-says-its-time-to-start-blaming-the-unvaccinated-folks-as-pandemic-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5669","title":{"rendered":"Alabama governor says \u2018it\u2019s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks\u2019 as pandemic worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued an impassioned plea for residents of her state to get vaccinated against Covid-19, arguing it was \u201ctime to start blaming the unvaccinated folks\u201d for the disease\u2019s continued spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want folks to get vaccinated. That\u2019s the cure. That prevents everything,\u201d Ivey, a Republican,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sONXs58bClg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told reporters in Birmingham, Ala.<\/a>, on Thursday.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Alabama remains the state with perhaps the lowest vaccination rate in the country, according to the CDC: Only&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2021\/07\/alabama-only-state-with-less-than-40-of-eligible-population-vaccinated.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">39.6 percent of its residents 12 and older<\/a>&nbsp;have been fully vaccinated, compared to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">48.8 percent of Americans nationally<\/a>&nbsp;who have gotten their shots.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Delta variant now represents more than 83 percent of the virus circulating in the United States,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/07\/22\/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-46\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the CDC<\/a>, and unvaccinated people account for 97 percent of coronavirus-related hospitalizations and deaths nationally.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/23\/alabama-governor-covid-vaccinations-500638\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/23\/alabama-governor-covid-vaccinations-500638<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued an impassioned plea for residents of her state to get vaccinated against Covid-19, arguing it was \u201ctime to start blaming the unvaccinated folks\u201d for the disease\u2019s continued spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want folks to get vaccinated. That\u2019s the cure. That prevents everything,\u201d Ivey, a Republican, told reporters in Birmingham, Ala., on Thursday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alabama remains the state with perhaps the lowest vaccination rate in the country, according to the CDC: Only 39.6 percent of its residents 12 and older have been fully vaccinated, compared to the 48.8 percent of Americans nationally who have gotten their shots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Delta variant now represents more than 83 percent of the virus circulating in the United States, according to the CDC, and unvaccinated people account for 97 percent of coronavirus-related hospitalizations and deaths nationally.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1197,588,409,483,653,526,925],"class_list":["post-5669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-alabama","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-governors","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}