{"id":600,"date":"2020-03-28T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=600"},"modified":"2020-03-28T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T18:04:22","slug":"americas-rapid-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/03\/28\/americas-rapid-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s rapid spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Katie, my best friend from home, has coronavirus. I never thought that someone so close to me would end up getting the virus. Even though she is young and healthy, her family is scared that they are going to get it. She went to the doctor today and they would not even test her because she is young and they don\u2019t have many tests. Without testing her they diagnosed her with the virus due to her having all of the symptoms. Her illness developed in pneumonia and she is having trouble breathing. She said that when she coughs it feels like she might throw up. As she has told me the severity of the illness, I understand why we must take these measures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hearing her experience has made me question how the rest of this virus will play out. China and South Korea stopped the virus relatively quickly, testing many individuals. In addition the country&#8217;s blocked off areas of travel, containing the virus as best as they could. Even though Trump claims that everyone here can get tested, that statement proves to be false. Since our country has now surpassed the number of cases in China, I question if we will take any more big steps to stop the spread. Since our president wants this to end quickly, I am concerned that we will continue down this negative path if the country does not follow China and South Korea&#8217;s intense measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie, my best friend from home, has coronavirus. I never thought that someone so close to me would end up getting the virus. Even though she is young and healthy, her family is scared that they are going to get it. She went to the doctor today and they would not even test her because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}