{"id":102840,"date":"2020-02-25T12:25:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/americans-should-prepare-for-coronavirus-spread-in-u-s-cdc-says"},"modified":"2020-02-25T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:25:45","slug":"americans-should-prepare-for-coronavirus-spread-in-u-s-cdc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/americans-should-prepare-for-coronavirus-spread-in-u-s-cdc-says","title":{"rendered":"Americans should prepare for coronavirus spread in U.S., CDC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/americans-should-prepare-for-coronavirus-spread-in-u-s-cdc-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top U.S. public health officials said Tuesday that Americans should prepare for the spread of the coronavirus in communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not so much a question of if this will happen any more, but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness,\u201d Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the head of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a media briefing Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/smart.link\/5d5ad16083f88\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News app<\/a> for breaking news<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top U.S. public health officials said Tuesday that Americans should prepare for the spread of the coronavirus in communities across the country. \u201cIt\u2019s not so much a question of if this will happen any more, but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}