{"id":109813,"date":"2020-07-12T00:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T07:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/hundreds-of-marine-recruits-have-now-tested-positive-for-covid-19-at-boot-camp"},"modified":"2020-07-12T00:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T07:51:33","slug":"hundreds-of-marine-recruits-have-now-tested-positive-for-covid-19-at-boot-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/hundreds-of-marine-recruits-have-now-tested-positive-for-covid-19-at-boot-camp","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Marine Recruits Have Now Tested Positive for COVID-19 at Boot Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hundreds-of-marine-recruits-have-now-tested-positive-for-covid-19-at-boot-camp.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/marine-corps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Corps<\/a> has seen hundreds of new recruits at boot camp test positive for the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, but their symptoms have been so mild that it hasn\u2019t disrupted training, a two-star general said this week.<\/p>\n<p>Fewer than 2% of the Marine recruits who\u2019ve reported to boot camp since the start of the pandemic have tested positive for COVID-19, Maj. Gen. Bill Mullen, head of Training and Education Command, said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Next:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2020\/07\/08\/heres-how-navys-new-prt-plank-event-will-be-scored.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Here\u2019s How the Navy\u2019s New PRT Plank Event Will Be Scored<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps has seen hundreds of new recruits at boot camp test positive for the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, but their symptoms have been so mild that it hasn\u2019t disrupted training, a two-star general said this week. Fewer than 2% of the Marine recruits who\u2019ve reported to boot camp since the start [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109813","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=109813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}