{"id":121317,"date":"2022-01-03T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121317"},"modified":"2022-01-03T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T15:30:34","slug":"secdef-austin-positive-for-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121317","title":{"rendered":"SecDef Austin Positive for Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-114174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/secdef-austin-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/secdef-austin-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/secdef-austin-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/secdef-austin-500x274.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/secdef-austin.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several of our usual suspects have sent us the startling news that Secretary of Defense Austin has tested positive for the Covid virus, despite being fully vaccinated and boosted. He is reportedly experiencing mild symptoms, and will quarantine for the next five days per recently updated CDC guesswork.<\/p>\n<h3>SECDEF Austin tests positive for COVID-19<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, he said in a statement provided by the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Austin said he is fully vaccinated and boosted, and is experiencing mild symptoms. He will quarantine for the next five days, per recently updated CDC protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Austin was on holiday leave and had not been in contact with Pentagon staff since Thursday, and had not been around President Joe Biden since Dec. 21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His statement and more at the link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2022\/01\/secdef-austin-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/\">American Military News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish illness on no one, and hope for a rapid and complete recovery to all who have contracted the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, usual suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Several of our usual suspects have sent us the &hellip; <a title=\"SecDef Austin Positive for Covid\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121317\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SecDef Austin Positive for Covid<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-link","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121320,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121317\/revisions\/121320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}