{"id":6995,"date":"2021-09-10T19:13:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2021-09-10T19:13:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T19:13:42","slug":"the-us-recorded-almost-four-times-as-many-new-covid-19-cases-in-the-run-up-to-labor-day-weekend-this-year-than-in-the-same-period-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/the-us-recorded-almost-four-times-as-many-new-covid-19-cases-in-the-run-up-to-labor-day-weekend-this-year-than-in-the-same-period-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The US recorded almost four times as many new COVID-19 cases in the run up to Labor Day weekend this year than in the same period in 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>On September 5, 2020, the weekly average number of new daily COVID-19 cases was 41,488, according to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/covid-cases\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford University\u2019s Our World in Data<\/a>. Exactly a year later, on Sunday, the number was 163,728, which is 294% higher.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The US recorded four times as many COVID-19 cases in the run up to Labor Day than in the same period last year.<\/li><li>On Sunday, average new daily cases were at 163,728, compared to 41,488 on the same day in 2020.<\/li><li>The highly infectious Delta variant continues to spread around the country.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 5, 2020, the weekly average number of new daily COVID-19 cases was 41,488, according to\u00a0Oxford University\u2019s Our World in Data. Exactly a year later, on Sunday, the number was 163,728, which is 294% higher. The US recorded four times as many COVID-19 cases in the run up to Labor Day than in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6997,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions\/6997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}