{"id":6403,"date":"2024-06-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2024-06-28T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:22:55","slug":"covid-19-experts-warn-of-risks-of-summer-surge-as-n-b-hazard-index-leads-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-experts-warn-of-risks-of-summer-surge-as-n-b-hazard-index-leads-country\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 experts warn of risks of summer surge as N.B. hazard index leads country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two infectious disease experts are warning New Brunswickers about the risks of COVID-19 heading into the summer, when they say many people mistakenly believe infections decrease.<\/p>\n<p>New Brunswick has the highest COVID-19 risk index in the country right now \u2014 more than double the national average, according to Tara Moriarty, an infectious disease researcher and lead of COVID-19 Resources Canada, which produces a weekly forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The province is listed as \u201csevere\u201d for June&nbsp;22 to July&nbsp;5, with a score of 28.2, based on current infections and spread, health-care system impact and mortality. Canada\u2019s overall rate is 13.6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two infectious disease experts are warning New Brunswickers about the risks of COVID-19 heading into the summer, when they say many people mistakenly believe infections decrease.<\/p>\n<p>New Brunswick has the highest COVID-19 risk index in the country right now \u2014 more than double the national average, according to Tara Moriarty, an infectious disease researcher and lead of COVID-19 Resources Canada, which produces a weekly forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The province is listed as \u201csevere\u201d for June&nbsp;22 to July&nbsp;5, with a score of 28.2, based on current infections and spread, health-care system impact and mortality. Canada\u2019s overall rate is 13.6.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-experts-warn-of-risks-of-summer-surge-as-n-b-hazard-index-leads-country\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 experts warn of risks of summer surge as N.B. hazard index leads country<\/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":[96,18,692,73,287,14],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-resources-canada","tag-new-brunswick","tag-new-wave","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6405,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}