{"id":149042,"date":"2021-02-19T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=149042"},"modified":"2021-02-19T11:13:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:13:14","slug":"biden-admin-struggles-to-explain-why-fla-calif-have-similar-covid-19-numbers-despite-opposite-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-struggles-to-explain-why-fla-calif-have-similar-covid-19-numbers-despite-opposite-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden admin. struggles to explain why Fla., Calif. have similar COVID-19 numbers despite opposite responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-struggles-to-explain-why-fla-calif-have-similar-covid-19-numbers-despite-opposite-responses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=149042&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2375329\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2375329\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2375329 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21042110955712-777x437.jpg\" alt=\"In this Jan. 27, 2021, image from video, Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team, speaks during a White House briefing on the Biden administration&#039;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington. President Joe Biden\u2019s team is styling itself on war footing as it attacks the coronavirus pandemic. Top aides say the administration is using every \u201ctool the federal government has to battle on every front.\u201d (White House via AP)\" width=\"777\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2375329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this Jan. 27, 2021, image from video, Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team, speaks during a White House briefing on the Biden administration\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington. (White House via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:04 PM PT \u2013 Friday, February 19, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A White House senior advisor for coronavirus response recently dodged questions about ongoing lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OF5d3z4UU94\">interview<\/a> on Wednesday, Andy Slavitt side-stepped a question on why Florida and California have similar case numbers despite using opposite approaches to the pandemic response. This comes amid Democrat-led California having strict lockdowns while Florida has issued fewer restrictions on businesses and gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, there\u2019s so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict, that\u2019s just a little bit beyond our explanation,\u201d stated the White House adviser. \u201cWhat we do know is that the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance, and the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away and the less it spreads\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Much more needs to be done. We know so many Americans are waiting for their turn. Shortening that time while continuing to be 100% factual is our entire focus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Slavitt (@aslavitt46) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aslavitt46\/status\/1362074107517554695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Slavitt danced around the question by suggesting the virus is \u201cunpredictable.\u201d He added, the Biden administration\u2019s lockdown mandates are far from over.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fbi-u-s-attorneys-office-probing-n-y-nursing-home-death-scandal\/\">FBI, U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office probing N.Y. nursing home death scandal<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181235,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21042110955712-777x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden admin. struggles to explain why Fla., Calif. have similar COVID-19 numbers despite opposite responses","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21042110955712-777x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden admin. struggles to explain why Fla., Calif. have similar COVID-19 numbers despite opposite responses","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}