{"id":103417,"date":"2020-03-07T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/new-cdc-guidance-says-older-adults-should-stay-at-home-as-much-as-possible-due-to-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-07T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T18:05:11","slug":"new-cdc-guidance-says-older-adults-should-stay-at-home-as-much-as-possible-due-to-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/new-cdc-guidance-says-older-adults-should-stay-at-home-as-much-as-possible-due-to-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"New CDC guidance says older adults should \u2018stay at home as much as possible\u2019 due to coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-cdc-guidance-says-older-adults-should-stay-at-home-as-much-as-possible-due-to-coronavirus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid a coronavirus outbreak in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging older people and people with severe chronic medical conditions to \u201cstay at home as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This advice is on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/specific-groups\/high-risk-complications.html\" target=\"_blank\">CDC website<\/a> that was posted Thursday, according to a CDC spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>Early data suggests older people are twice as likely to have serious illness from the novel coronavirus, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a coronavirus outbreak in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging older people and people with severe chronic medical conditions to \u201cstay at home as much as possible.\u201d This advice is on a CDC website that was posted Thursday, according to a CDC spokeswoman. Early data suggests older [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103417","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=103417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}