{"id":90774,"date":"2020-03-19T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90774"},"modified":"2020-03-19T17:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:42:44","slug":"south-carolina-up-to-81-cases-in-17-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90774","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina up to 81 cases in 17 counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina saw its largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases on Thursday as officials announced 21 patients tested presumptively positive for the illness.<\/p>\n<p>As of the latest update, there were 81 known cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, in 17 counties in the Palmetto State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will likely be an extended response,\u201d said Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist.<\/p>\n<p>If people don\u2019t follow social distancing recommendations as well as practicing good hygiene, the state could see a doubling in the number of cases, as has happened in other areas, Bell said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/health\/covid19\/new-cases-of-coronavirus-reported-bringing-sc-total-to-active\/article_65b5366a-69d5-11ea-a145-376ca0431b36.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">S.C. saw its largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>21 patients tested presumptively positive for the illness. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JHPGncV7Dx\">https:\/\/t.co\/JHPGncV7Dx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1240747200638078980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina saw its largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases on Thursday as officials announced 21 patients tested presumptively positive for the illness. As of the latest update, there were 81 known cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=90774\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90777,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90774\/revisions\/90777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}