{"id":107367,"date":"2020-05-20T21:04:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/maryland-reopens-and-quickly-sees-its-largest-covid-19-spike"},"modified":"2020-05-20T21:04:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:04:33","slug":"maryland-reopens-and-quickly-sees-its-largest-covid-19-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/maryland-reopens-and-quickly-sees-its-largest-covid-19-spike","title":{"rendered":"Maryland reopens\u2014and quickly sees its largest COVID-19 spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maryland-reopens-and-quickly-sees-its-largest-covid-19-spike.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maryland reported its highest number of new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday\u2014just four days after the state began easing public health restrictions aimed at thwarting the spread of disease.<\/p>\n<p>Though state officials note that <a href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=100098X1555750&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fdc-md-va%2F2020%2F05%2F19%2Fcoronavirus-dc-maryland-virginia-live-updates%2F&sref=rss\">an increase in testing<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=100098X1555750&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.baltimoresun.com%2Fcoronavirus%2Fbs-md-coronavirus-cases-deaths-hospitalizations-20200519-ba4vfvwumfdple3mcfq7hlyzxq-story.html%3Ffbclid%3Dt&sref=rss\">backlog of test results<\/a> may partly explain the spike, the case counts overall suggest that disease transmission has not declined in the lead-up to re-opening\u2014and transmission could very easily increase as residents begin venturing into public spaces more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland\u2019s outcome may hold lessons for other states attempting their own reopening. As of today, May 20, <a href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=100098X1555750&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnation%2F2020%2F05%2F19%2Fcoronavirus-update-us%2F&sref=rss\">all 50 states have begun easing restrictions<\/a> at some level, according to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland reported its highest number of new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday\u2014just four days after the state began easing public health restrictions aimed at thwarting the spread of disease. Though state officials note that an increase in testing and a backlog of test results may partly explain the spike, the case counts overall suggest that disease [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107367","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\/107367","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}