{"id":23526,"date":"2022-07-03T00:55:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T04:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=23526"},"modified":"2022-07-03T00:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T04:55:27","slug":"covid-positivity-rate-rises-above-23-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/07\/03\/covid-positivity-rate-rises-above-23-in-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID positivity rate rises above 23% in Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polk-county.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polk County<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"278\" height=\"181\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/download-1.jpg?resize=278%2C181&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23527\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The infection rate rose 9.37% in the week ending Thursday, to 397.64 per 100,000 residents, according to the<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#datatracker-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s COVID Tracker website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CDC continues to list Polk County as high for community levels of COVID-19, along with all but seven of Florida\u2019s 66 other counties. The CDC reported a positivity rate of 23.05% for Polk County, an increase of 2.11% from a week earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That rate is based on testing reported to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridahealth.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Florida Department of Health<\/a>&nbsp;and does not include results of home testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in&nbsp;Polk County. The infection rate rose 9.37% in the week ending Thursday, to 397.64 per 100,000 residents, according to the&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[3072],"class_list":["post-23526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-covid-positivity-rate-rises-above-23-in-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}