{"id":1078785,"date":"2021-12-05T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T20:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1078785"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T22:45:00","slug":"tyler-doctor-weighs-in-on-vaccine-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1078785","title":{"rendered":"Tyler doctor weighs in on vaccine access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1078788\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/davidlakey-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A Tyler-based doctor is weighing in after President Biden laid out plans to increase access for people wanting to be vaccinated or get a booster shot. Dr. David Lakey is a member of the Texas COVID-19 Task Force and says vaccination is important even for people who have dealt with a case of COVID. Lakey says, &#8220;I had COVID last Christmas&#8230;and I went ahead and got immunized&#8230;When I look at the data related to the level of antibodies, they&#8217;re much higher in individuals that have been immunized than individuals&#8230;that had just natural disease. And if you had both natural disease and immunization&#8230;the levels are very high.&#8221; Lakey says the number of COVID patients in hospitals is decreasing except in the El Paso area and the Panhandle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A Tyler-based doctor is weighing in after President Biden laid out plans to increase access for people wanting to be vaccinated or get a booster shot. Dr. David Lakey is a member of the Texas COVID-19 Task Force and says vaccination is important even for people who have dealt with a case of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1078785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler doctor weighs in on vaccine access<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1078793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/davidlakey-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler doctor weighs in on vaccine access","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 01:51:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/12\/davidlakey-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler doctor weighs in on vaccine access","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078805,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078785\/revisions\/1078805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}