{"id":109660,"date":"2020-07-08T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/state-reports-no-covid-19-deaths-since-yesterday-first-time-in-months-governor"},"modified":"2020-07-08T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:24:03","slug":"state-reports-no-covid-19-deaths-since-yesterday-first-time-in-months-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/state-reports-no-covid-19-deaths-since-yesterday-first-time-in-months-governor","title":{"rendered":"State Reports No COVID-19 Deaths Since Yesterday; \u2018First Time In Months:\u2019 Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/state-reports-no-covid-19-deaths-since-yesterday-first-time-in-months-governor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 hospitalizations in Connecticut increased by 14 since Monday, but the state is reporting no new coronavirus-related deaths for the \u201cfirst time in months,\u201d Governor Ned Lamont announced at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m paid to worry,\u201d the governor said when talking about the hospitalizations increasing. \u201cI would worry if I saw our admissions in our hospitals going up and that\u2019s why you saw hospitalizations going up. That\u2019s not what happened. We\u2019ve added between about 20 and 30 new COVID cases a day into our hospitals. That\u2019s consistent. That\u2019s been consistent for the last few weeks. What is happened is there are many fewer discharges. It\u2019s not something I worry about, just something I note to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the state Department of Health, 5,745 tests have been administered since yesterday, and just 57 new cases were reported. Lamont said the state\u2019s positive test percentage remains around one percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 hospitalizations in Connecticut increased by 14 since Monday, but the state is reporting no new coronavirus-related deaths for the \u201cfirst time in months,\u201d Governor Ned Lamont announced at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. \u201cI\u2019m paid to worry,\u201d the governor said when talking about the hospitalizations increasing. \u201cI would worry if I saw our admissions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109660","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\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}