{"id":850,"date":"2020-10-16T15:17:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=850"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:17:17","slug":"news-8-million-us-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/10\/16\/news-8-million-us-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"News: 8 Million US COVID-19 Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"421\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-16-at-3.09.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-16-at-3.09.04-PM.png 421w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-16-at-3.09.04-PM-173x300.png 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><figcaption>From https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/, of course<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What is concerning is not just the numbers, but the cases that go on and on, where people don&#8217;t fully recover for months.  We need to look after those people, too &#8211; long term.  And, as a country without a coherent health system, we would need to do things differently to handle that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A conventional news story on the topic from the UK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/15\/long-covid-what-we-know-so-far\">Long Covid: what we know so far<\/a><\/h4><p>At the start of the pandemic we were told that Covid-19 was a respiratory illness from which most people would recover within two or three weeks, but it&#8217;s increasingly clear that there may be tens of thousands of people, if not hundreds of thousands, who have been left experiencing symptoms months after becoming infected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, it is very difficult to live in a country that is opposed to joint solutions to problems&#8230; literally difficult to preserve one&#8217;s own life, or the lives of others!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is concerning is not just the numbers, but the cases that go on and on, where people don&#8217;t fully recover for months. We need to look after those people, too &#8211; long term. And, as a country without a coherent health system, we would need to do things differently to handle that. A conventional &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/10\/16\/news-8-million-us-covid-19-cases\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News: 8 Million US COVID-19 Cases&#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-850","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\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}