{"id":114647,"date":"2020-10-18T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T03:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/covid-19-cases-climbing-in-almost-every-state-as-u-s-braces-for-possible-third-peak"},"modified":"2020-10-18T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T03:24:10","slug":"covid-19-cases-climbing-in-almost-every-state-as-u-s-braces-for-possible-third-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/covid-19-cases-climbing-in-almost-every-state-as-u-s-braces-for-possible-third-peak","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 cases climbing in almost every state as U.S. braces for possible \u2018third peak\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-cases-climbing-in-almost-every-state-as-u-s-braces-for-possible-third-peak.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are doing heroic work, but they are really getting to the point where it\u2019s going to be literally unsustainable,\u201d an infectious diseases doctor says.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Texas, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands stand alone in having recorded decreases in numbers of Covid-19 cases over the last two weeks as the country braces for a possible \u201cthird peak\u201d of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Although Texas reported a \u201cslight decrease\u201d in cases over the 14-day period that ended Saturday, its news was better than elsewhere: 38 states, Washington, D.C., and Guam all recorded increases in cases over the last 14 days, and nine states have plateaued, according to NBC News tallies. Rhode Island, which, like Texas, has also had a net decrease, does not report data over the weekend, and Missouri is not reporting data because of a technology issue.<\/p>\n<p>Cases numbers have spiked in Vermont and New Mexico as they battle spikes of about 117 percent in case numbers over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople are doing heroic work, but they are really getting to the point where it\u2019s going to be literally unsustainable,\u201d an infectious diseases doctor says. Texas, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands stand alone in having recorded decreases in numbers of Covid-19 cases over the last two weeks as the country braces for a [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114647","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=114647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}