{"id":8064,"date":"2024-11-06T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2024-11-06T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:15:58","slug":"va-marks-millionth-covid-case-as-officials-warn-health-threat-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/11\/06\/va-marks-millionth-covid-case-as-officials-warn-health-threat-persists\/","title":{"rendered":"VA marks millionth COVID case as officials warn health threat persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2024\/11\/09\/va-marks-millionth-covid-case-as-officials-warn-health-threat-persists\/\">Military Times<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2024\/11\/01\/lawmakers-accuse-va-leaders-of-exaggerating-budget-shortfall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Veterans Affairs<\/a>&nbsp;medical officials recorded their millionth diagnosed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>&nbsp;case Wednesday, a milestone that department experts say serves as a reminder that the virus remains a public&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2024\/01\/17\/amid-covid-surge-va-hospitals-not-requiring-masks-for-all-patients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health threat<\/a>&nbsp;even years after the height of the global pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 continues to be the most significant viral respiratory infection in our community,\u201d said Dr. Gio Baracco, senior advisor for the Veterans Health Administration\u2019s National Infectious Diseases Service. \u201cIt\u2019s still causing a significant number of illnesses, even hospitalizations and some deaths, although clearly not as many as we had at the beginning of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2024\/11\/09\/va-marks-millionth-covid-case-as-officials-warn-health-threat-persists\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"r KiT FLYEfHjcj  j mC kDtw\">r KiT FLYEfHjcj  j mC kDtw<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Times Veterans Affairs&nbsp;medical officials recorded their millionth diagnosed&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;case Wednesday, a milestone that department experts say serves as a reminder that the virus remains a public&nbsp;health threat&nbsp;even years after the height of the global pandemic. \u201cCOVID-19 continues to be the most significant viral respiratory infection in our community,\u201d said Dr. Gio Baracco, senior advisor for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"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\/8064","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=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8065,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions\/8065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}