{"id":146173,"date":"2022-09-12T11:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/explained-new-york-city-declares-poliovirus-a-public-emergency-disaster"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:23:47","slug":"explained-new-york-city-declares-poliovirus-a-public-emergency-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/explained-new-york-city-declares-poliovirus-a-public-emergency-disaster","title":{"rendered":"Explained: New York City declares poliovirus a public emergency disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/explained-new-york-city-declares-poliovirus-a-public-emergency-disaster2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NPR\u2019s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Nsikan Akpan, health and science editor at WNYC\/Gothamist, about the poliovirus emergecy disaster declaration in New York state.<\/p>\n<p>AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:<\/p>\n<p>New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared polio a state disaster emergency on Friday. The first polio case in nearly a decade was identified back in July. The virus can cause paralysis. Nsikan Akpan runs the health and science desk at WNYC\/Gothamist. He joins us now. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR\u2019s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Nsikan Akpan, health and science editor at WNYC\/Gothamist, about the poliovirus emergecy disaster declaration in New York state. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared polio a state disaster emergency on Friday. The first polio case in nearly a decade was identified back in July. The virus can [\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-146173","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\/146173","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=146173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}