{"id":6754,"date":"2024-08-12T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2024-08-13T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:54:02","slug":"high-covid-levels-show-virus-may-no-longer-be-an-emergency-in-b-c-but-its-still-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/high-covid-levels-show-virus-may-no-longer-be-an-emergency-in-b-c-but-its-still-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018High\u2019 COVID levels show virus may no longer be an emergency in B.C. but it\u2019s still a threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B.C.\u2019s [top doctor] has ended the COVID-19 public health emergency, but experts warn that COVID-19 still poses a serious and potentially deadly threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID is still a major, ongoing health issue and crisis,\u201d said Tara Moriarty, an associate professor at the University of Toronto, an infectious disease expert and co-founder of the COVID-19 Resources Canada database.<\/p>\n<p>By Moriarty\u2019s calculations, one in 52 British Columbians currently has COVID. According to recent federal wastewater testing from mid-July, B.C. has \u201chigh\u201d COVID-19 activity levels.<\/p>\n<p>This can have major implications for public health because hospitals don\u2019t have mandatory masking requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.C.\u2019s [top doctor] has ended the COVID-19 public health emergency, but experts warn that COVID-19 still poses a serious and potentially deadly threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID is still a major, ongoing health issue and crisis,\u201d said Tara Moriarty, an associate professor at the University of Toronto, an infectious disease expert and co-founder of the COVID-19 Resources Canada database.<\/p>\n<p>By Moriarty\u2019s calculations, one in 52 British Columbians currently has COVID. According to recent federal wastewater testing from mid-July, B.C. has \u201chigh\u201d COVID-19 activity levels.<\/p>\n<p>This can have major implications for public health because hospitals don\u2019t have mandatory masking requirements.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/high-covid-levels-show-virus-may-no-longer-be-an-emergency-in-b-c-but-its-still-a-threat\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018High\u2019 COVID levels show virus may no longer be an emergency in B.C. but it\u2019s still a threat<\/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":[83,96,18,287,14,230,47],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-new-wave","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-variants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","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=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6756,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}