{"id":151760,"date":"2021-01-04T06:02:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T10:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=151760"},"modified":"2021-01-04T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:57:33","slug":"former-government-covid-19-medical-advisors-father-dies-of-the-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/04\/former-government-covid-19-medical-advisors-father-dies-of-the-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Former government Covid-19 medical advisor&#8217;s father dies of the virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Amado-Alejandro-Baez-Presidencia.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Amado-Alejandro-Baez-Presidencia.png 600w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Amado-Alejandro-Baez-Presidencia-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The lead medical advisor on Covid-19 during the Medina administration, Amado Alejandro Baez announced his own father passed away due to complications after catching the disease. Baez had served as director of the Covid-19 emergency committee during the past Medina administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Alejandro Emilio Baez Van-Epps died on Saturday, 2 January 2021 of health complications after contracting the virus, his son tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baez explained that his father had struggled to survive the virus for four weeks. In his tweet, B\u00e1ez shared the anguish of seeing his father&#8217;s health fail and the short funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/fallecio-por-covid-19-padre-del-doctor-y-exasesor-medico-del-gobierno-amado-baez\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 January 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead medical advisor on Covid-19 during the Medina administration, Amado Alejandro Baez announced his own father passed away due to complications after catching the disease. Baez had served as director of the Covid-19 emergency committee during the past Medina administration. Dr. Alejandro Emilio Baez Van-Epps died on Saturday, 2 January 2021 of health complications &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/04\/former-government-covid-19-medical-advisors-father-dies-of-the-virus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151814,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151760\/revisions\/151814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}