{"id":222,"date":"2020-03-29T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=222"},"modified":"2020-03-29T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:58:47","slug":"public-health-officials-announce-the-first-death-of-an-infant-with-coronavirus-disease-idph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/29\/public-health-officials-announce-the-first-death-of-an-infant-with-coronavirus-disease-idph\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Officials Announce the First Death of an Infant with Coronavirus Disease | IDPH"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported the death of an infant younger than one year in Chicago who tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has never before been a death associated with COVID-19 in an infant. \u00a0A full investigation is underway to determine the cause of death,\u201d said IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike.\u00a0 \u201cWe must do everything we can to prevent the spread of this deadly virus. If not to protect ourselves, but to protect those around us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Older adults are at higher risk of severe illness, and more than 85% of deaths in Illinois are among individuals 60 years of age and older.\u00a0 However, people of all ages are suffering severe illness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"http:\/\/dph.illinois.gov\/news\/public-health-officials-announce-first-death-infant-coronavirus-disease\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Public Health Officials Announce the First Death of an Infant with Coronavirus Disease | IDPH<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/infant\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#infant<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/deaths\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#deaths<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/first\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#first<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported the death of an infant younger than one year in Chicago who tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19).\u00a0 \u201cThere has never before been a death associated with COVID-19 in an infant. \u00a0A full investigation is underway to determine the cause of death,\u201d said IDPH Director Dr. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/03\/29\/public-health-officials-announce-the-first-death-of-an-infant-with-coronavirus-disease-idph\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[79,80,78],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}