{"id":5541,"date":"2021-09-09T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2021-09-09T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T23:25:20","slug":"dpt-student-laura-wong-24-spoke-at-governor-mckees-covid-19-weekly-briefing-held-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/dpt-student-laura-wong-24-spoke-at-governor-mckees-covid-19-weekly-briefing-held-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"DPT Student Laura Wong (&#8217;24) spoke at Governor McKee&#8217;s COVID-19 weekly briefing held at URI!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>URI President Marc Parlange hosted Governor Dan McKee&#8217;s weekly coronavirus briefing at the University of Rhode Island on Thursday, September 2nd. The discussion focused on the university&#8217;s efforts to keep the community safe through our COVID-19 vaccine policies. Laura Wong (&#8217;24), 1st year DPT student, addressed the impact the COVID-19 vaccine has had on getting students back to campus. She thoughtfully explained how hands-on experience and face to face classes allow students to gain the knowledge and skills they need in healthcare practice.<\/p>\n<p>Please take a look at the video clip from WJAR 10 News of Laura speaking:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/600430633?badge=0&#038;autopause=0&#038;player_id=0&#038;app_id=58479&#038;h=5dbd4cbd07\" width=\"774\" height=\"448\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" title=\"Student COVID Speaker - URI\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><strong>WJAR 10 News link:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/turnto10.com\/news\/local\/uri-faculty-union-reaches-covid-19-vaccination-agreement\">URI will require faculty and staff to get vaccinated; McKee applauds policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URI President Marc Parlange hosted Governor Dan McKee&#8217;s weekly coronavirus briefing at the University of Rhode Island on Thursday, September 2nd. The discussion focused on the university&#8217;s efforts to keep the community safe through our COVID-19 vaccine policies. Laura Wong (&#8217;24), 1st year DPT student, addressed the impact the COVID-19 vaccine has had on getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2529,"featured_media":5561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5559,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/5559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}