{"id":2301,"date":"2023-01-27T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2023-01-27T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:53:41","slug":"what-infectious-disease-doctors-want-you-to-know-as-the-covid-19-pandemic-enters-its-4th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/27\/what-infectious-disease-doctors-want-you-to-know-as-the-covid-19-pandemic-enters-its-4th-year\/","title":{"rendered":"What infectious disease doctors want you to know as the COVID-19 pandemic enters its 4th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/coronavirus\/2023\/01\/26\/infectious-disease-experts-fourth-year-covid-pandemic\/\">Boston.com<\/a>) The trends for\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0are looking more promising as January comes to a close, after a spike in cases and hospitalizations earlier this month prompted officials in the area to urge the use of masks in indoor public spaces to help prevent transmission.\u00a0The wave of cases even prompted some local schools, including Chelsea Public Schools and UMass Boston, to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/coronavirus\/2023\/01\/06\/umass-boston-reinstates-mask-requirements-effective-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\">temporarily reinstitute mask mandates<\/a>. (The schools have since switched those masking requirements back to strong recommendations.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Boston.com) The trends for\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0are looking more promising as January comes to a close, after a spike in cases and hospitalizations earlier this month prompted officials in the area to urge the use of masks in indoor public spaces to help prevent transmission.\u00a0The wave of cases even prompted some local schools, including Chelsea Public Schools and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2302,"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":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-27-at-11.53.13.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}