{"id":1199,"date":"2022-11-02T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:39","slug":"orange-county-declares-health-emergency-as-rsv-surges-cases-also-rising-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/02\/orange-county-declares-health-emergency-as-rsv-surges-cases-also-rising-in-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County declares health emergency as RSV surges; cases also rising in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-11-01\/orange-county-declares-health-emergency-amid-rsv-spread\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>)  Rapidly spreading viral infections have pushed pediatric hospitalizations and daily emergency room visits to record levels in Orange County, prompting officials to declare a health emergency. The county, like the rest of California, is facing a viral triple whammy: continued circulation of the coronavirus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-10-24\/southern-california-braces-for-difficult-flu-season\">seasonal rise of the flu<\/a>\u00a0and heightened spread of respiratory syncytial virus, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-10-25\/california-hospitals-see-rise-in-rsv-childrens-respiratory-illness\">RSV<\/a>, a respiratory illness that can be dangerous for small children.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Los Angeles Times) Rapidly spreading viral infections have pushed pediatric hospitalizations and daily emergency room visits to record levels in Orange County, prompting officials to declare a health emergency. The county, like the rest of California, is facing a viral triple whammy: continued circulation of the coronavirus,\u00a0seasonal rise of the flu\u00a0and heightened spread of respiratory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-rsv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}