{"id":28669,"date":"2023-01-06T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T03:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=28669"},"modified":"2023-01-06T23:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T04:26:14","slug":"covid-positivity-rate-rises-to-14-7-for-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/01\/06\/covid-positivity-rate-rises-to-14-7-for-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID positivity rate rises to 14.7% for Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The positivity rate for COVID-19 testing in Polk County has spiked to 14.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"493\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-2.jpg 880w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/download-2-768x430.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was the figure in an update released late Friday afternoon by the Florida Department of Health. The agency normally issues statistics on COVID-19 every two weeks but missed the previous week\u2019s update because of the New Year\u2019s holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The positivity rate had been at 10.9% in the Dec. 16 update, the first time it had surpassed 10% since early September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state disclosed 1,054 new COVID infections for Polk County from Dec. 30 to Jan. 5. That marked an increase of 35.1% from the last report issued three weeks earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now lists Polk County as a medium for community levels of COVID-19, ending a long period in the low category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CDC dashboard shows 62.8% of Polk residents as having completed a primary series of vaccinations, while only 8% had received the latest booster dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The positivity rate for COVID-19 testing in Polk County has spiked to 14.7%. That was the figure in an update released late Friday afternoon by the Florida Department of Health.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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":[14],"tags":[4218],"class_list":["post-28669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-positivity-rate-rises-to-14-7-for-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669","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=28669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}