{"id":5268,"date":"2023-09-03T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/03\/start-of-school-sees-covid-increase\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:23:47","slug":"start-of-school-sees-covid-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/03\/start-of-school-sees-covid-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Start of school sees COVID increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the start of the school year COVID-19 cases are rising in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said reports of COVID-19 in adolescent emergency room visits have almost doubled over the past week; due partly to the EG.5 variant.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s highly contagious and affects people who weren&rsquo;t affected by other strains. <br \/>There is also variant BA.2.86 in play. There hasn&rsquo;t been any cases in South Carolina yet, but it is in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The usual cautions apply: be sure you&rsquo;re up-to-date on your vaccines, wash your hands often, cover your coughs and sneezes and stay home if you think you&rsquo;re sick.<\/p>\n<p>The August 18 Spring Valley vs. White Knoll football game was canceled due to the Spring Valley football team having a surge in COVID cases and other illnesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the start of the school year COVID-19 cases are rising in South Carolina. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said reports of COVID-19 in adolescent emergency room visits have almost doubled over the past week; due partly to the EG.5 variant. It&rsquo;s highly contagious and affects people<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/03\/start-of-school-sees-covid-increase\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,38],"tags":[577],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-news","category-health","tag-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CovidGold_2023_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}