{"id":134714,"date":"2020-09-03T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=134714"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:57:10","slug":"health-dept-reports-88-confirmed-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/09\/03\/health-dept-reports-88-confirmed-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Dept. reports 88 confirmed cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert County Health District is reporting a total of 88 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of 3 p.m. Thursday, September 3 &#8212; an increase of 10 cases since last Thursday, August 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new cases fall into the following age ranges: three in the 20-29 age range, one in the 30-39 age range, two in the 40-49 age range, and four in the 50-59 age range. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health department notes it has received questions on why the media reports a different number.\u00a0 Some media outlets report the total number of cases, including probable\/suspect cases, while the Van Wert County Health Department is reporting the confirmed cases only.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/coronavirus.ohio.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">coronavirus.ohio.gov<\/a>\u00a0dashboard shows total cases when Van Wert County is selected, and those accessing it must select confirmed to see the difference in confirmed versus probable cases.\u00a0The health department is reporting Covid-19 statistics weekly on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0For daily updates, go to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coronavirus.ohio.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.coronavirus.ohio.gov<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Covid-19-Update-September-3-2020.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Covid-19-Update-September-3-2020.png 580w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Covid-19-Update-September-3-2020-550x550.png 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Covid-19-Update-September-3-2020-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The Van Wert County Health District is reporting a total of 88 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of 3 p.m. Thursday, September 3 &#8212; an increase of 10 cases since last Thursday, August 27. The new cases fall into the following age ranges: three in the 20-29 age range, one in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 02:33:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}