{"id":522,"date":"2020-07-03T10:02:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=522"},"modified":"2020-07-03T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T17:02:50","slug":"news-current-confirmed-pandemic-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/07\/03\/news-current-confirmed-pandemic-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Current Confirmed Pandemic Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"958\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-03-at-9.52.43-AM.png\" alt=\"July 3, 2020 Johns Hopkins Coronavirus home page\" class=\"wp-image-520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-03-at-9.52.43-AM.png 958w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-03-at-9.52.43-AM-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-03-at-9.52.43-AM-768x567.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption><em>Current count at the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/\">Johns Hopkins University of Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center homepage<\/a><em> (3 July 2020 at about 9:40AM)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had intended to comment here on major milestones, but we are just flying through them so quickly now that recent &#8220;reopening&#8221; (which is more like &#8220;denial&#8221; or &#8220;pretending coronaviruses take time off&#8221; than it is &#8220;cautious and aware activities&#8221;) has had its incubation period run out.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading news on the phone is now called &#8220;doom scrolling,&#8221; to give you a sense of how poorly management of this virus has gone in my part of the world.  (It&#8217;s possible to do better, and many countries have, but the US has chosen a different path.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had intended to comment here on major milestones, but we are just flying through them so quickly now that recent &#8220;reopening&#8221; (which is more like &#8220;denial&#8221; or &#8220;pretending coronaviruses take time off&#8221; than it is &#8220;cautious and aware activities&#8221;) has had its incubation period run out. Reading news on the phone is now called &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/07\/03\/news-current-confirmed-pandemic-figures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News: Current Confirmed Pandemic Figures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pandemic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}