{"id":176829,"date":"2020-03-11T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/11\/its-official\/"},"modified":"2020-03-11T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T23:50:00","slug":"its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/11\/its-official\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The World Health Organization has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/11\/health\/coronavirus-pandemic-who.html\">officially declared that COVID-19 is a pandemic<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The spread of the coronavirus is now a pandemic, officials at the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have rung the alarm bell loud and clear,\u201d said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the W.H.O.\u2019s director-general.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are only about 1,100 confirmed cases in the United States, but experts fear that is only a fraction of the real prevalence, because testing for the coronavirus has been unavailable or haphazard in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>The number of cases in the world doubles every six days, epidemiologists have estimated.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the US response will be handled by people who want to down the government in a bathtub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization has officially declared that COVID-19 is a pandemic: The spread of the coronavirus is now a pandemic, officials at the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. \u201cWe have rung the alarm bell loud and clear,\u201d said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the W.H.O.\u2019s director-general. \u2026\u2026\u2026 There are only about 1,100 confirmed cases in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,394,440,572,374,460],"class_list":["post-176829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-foreign-relations","tag-medical","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}