{"id":93787,"date":"2020-06-09T17:12:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93787"},"modified":"2020-06-09T17:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:15:05","slug":"the-state-as-south-carolina-surpasses-15000-covid19-cases-infection-rates-hospitalizations-hit-new-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93787","title":{"rendered":"(The State) As South Carolina surpasses 15,000 COVID19 cases, infection rates, hospitalizations hit new highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article243364791.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener noreferrer\">record breaking day<\/a>, Department of Health and Environmental Control officials announced Tuesday that South Carolina has surpassed 15,000 coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 434 more people tested positive for the virus, and 11 additional people have died after contracting it, DHEC officials said. The 434 represented 14.7% of the total daily number of tests results reported Tuesday \u2014 the highest daily rate of infection the state has seen in at least the last 28 days.<\/p>\n<p>Another statistic also is rapidly rising: the number of hospital beds across the state occupied by patients with confirmed COVID-19 cases or who are under investigation for the disease. On Saturday, for example, the state had 482 COVID patients being treated in hospital. In just two days, that number has rocketed up to 541.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article243401306.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As SC surpasses 15,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID_19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID_19<\/a> cases, infection rates, hospitalizations hit new highs &#8211;&gt; via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilybohatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@emilybohatch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sctweets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sctweets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CSSlNdMCg7\">https:\/\/t.co\/CSSlNdMCg7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Self (@jamiemself) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamiemself\/status\/1270460360345214976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 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>Following a record breaking day, Department of Health and Environmental Control officials announced Tuesday that South Carolina has surpassed 15,000 coronavirus cases. On Tuesday, 434 more people tested positive for the virus, and 11 additional people have died after contracting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93787\">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":[40,54,582,589,149,168,104,597,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93787","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=93787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93791,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93787\/revisions\/93791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}