{"id":94223,"date":"2020-06-21T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94223"},"modified":"2020-06-21T07:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T11:24:54","slug":"local-paper-south-carolina-continues-record-breaking-coronavirus-spread-charleston-logs-highest-new-case-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94223","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) South Carolina continues record-breaking coronavirus spread, Charleston logs highest new case rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the London-based Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases shows that coronavirus cases are set to double in South Carolina every 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>That rate exceeds disease spread in Georgia, which is set to see cases double every 43 days; North Carolina, every 16 days; and Tennessee, every 20 days, the data shows. In Florida, cases are set to double every 13 days.<\/p>\n<p>Public health experts continue to urge everyone to take precautions such as practicing social distancing, wearing a mask in public, avoiding group gatherings, washing your hands regularly and staying home if you\u2019re sick.<\/p>\n<p>Although experts disagreed on whether masks were an effective form of protection during the first couple of months of the pandemic, it is now broadly accepted that face masks or cloth face coverings can help reduce the virus\u2019 ability to spread.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/health\/covid19\/sc-continues-record-breaking-coronavirus-spread-charleston-logs-highest-new-case-rate\/article_1ee7fa34-b312-11ea-bed7-d73a0fcb6ec9.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1,157 new coronavirus cases reported today in South Carolina, another record-breaking number of positive tests. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MM5BGWXWHW\">https:\/\/t.co\/MM5BGWXWHW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1274380303554011139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 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>Data from the London-based Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases shows that coronavirus cases are set to double in South Carolina every 14 days. That rate exceeds disease spread in Georgia, which is set to see cases double every<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94223\">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-94223","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\/94223","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=94223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94226,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94223\/revisions\/94226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}