{"id":3894,"date":"2023-12-11T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2023-12-17T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T17:57:00","slug":"covid-19-home-testing-as-important-as-ever-infectious-disease-specialist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-home-testing-as-important-as-ever-infectious-disease-specialist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 home testing as important as ever, infectious disease specialist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost four years into the pandemic many people have been taking a more carefree approach to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lisa Barrett, an infectious diseases specialist and assistant professor at Dalhousie\u2019s School of Medicine, says it\u2019s important to still be vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett told Portia Clark of CBC Radio\u2019s <i>Information Morning Nova Scotia<\/i> that keeping a supply of COVID-19 rapid tests at home is as necessary as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost four years into the pandemic many people have been taking a more carefree approach to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lisa Barrett, an infectious diseases specialist and assistant professor at Dalhousie\u2019s School of Medicine, says it\u2019s important to still be vigilant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-home-testing-as-important-as-ever-infectious-disease-specialist-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 home testing as important as ever, infectious disease specialist says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,218,22,14],"class_list":["post-3894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-nova-scotia","tag-rapid-tests","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","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=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}