{"id":3879,"date":"2023-12-16T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2023-12-16T18:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T23:49:02","slug":"covid-19-mortality-rates-are-up-in-n-l-and-reporting-efforts-are-down-researcher-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-mortality-rates-are-up-in-n-l-and-reporting-efforts-are-down-researcher-says\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 mortality rates are up in N.L., and reporting efforts are down, researcher says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An infectious disease researcher says COVID-19 cases in Newfoundland and Labrador are on the rise again \u2014 and that it comes at a time when the province isn\u2019t showing the full picture when it comes to reporting statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Moriarty, a researcher and professor at the University of Toronto, told CBC News that COVID-19 cases are up across the country heading into the holiday season. And while Newfoundland and Labrador is in a slightly better situation, she said, her research indicates that about one in every 37&nbsp;residents are infected by COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are about 9,000&nbsp;infections per week, or about 1,300 per day,\u201d Moriarty said Wednesday. \u201cWe also are expecting about 17&nbsp;per cent excess mortality in Newfoundland and Labrador related to COVID, which is about 19&nbsp;deaths per week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An infectious disease researcher says COVID-19 cases in Newfoundland and Labrador are on the rise again \u2014 and that it comes at a time when the province isn\u2019t showing the full picture when it comes to reporting statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Moriarty, a researcher and professor at the University of Toronto, told CBC News that COVID-19 cases are up across the country heading into the holiday season. And while Newfoundland and Labrador is in a slightly better situation, she said, her research indicates that about one in every 37&nbsp;residents are infected by COVID-19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-mortality-rates-are-up-in-n-l-and-reporting-efforts-are-down-researcher-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 mortality rates are up in N.L., and reporting efforts are down, researcher says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,361,150,99,11,360,14,230],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-data-suppression","tag-deaths","tag-excess-mortality","tag-long-covid","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}