{"id":22500,"date":"2020-03-01T01:49:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T09:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22500"},"modified":"2020-03-01T09:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T17:51:23","slug":"first-u-s-death-from-coronavirus-reported-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22500","title":{"rendered":"First U.S. death from coronavirus reported in Washington state"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>The Washington Department of Health confirmed Saturday the first coronavirus-related death in the United States, a King County man in his 50s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>The man who later died arrived at EvergreenHealth Medical Center in Kirkland with \u201cserious respiratory issues\u201d and later tested positive for COVID-19 (coronavirus), King County Public Health said. Officials said the man also had underlying health conditions, although they declined to say what the conditions were, citing patient privacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>\u201cIt is a sad day in our state as we learn that a Washingtonian has died from COVID-19,\u201d Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement. \u201cOur hearts go out to their family and friends. We will continue to work toward a day where no one dies from this virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"card collection-item \" data-type=\"text\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"card-content card-article\">\n<p>The man had no history of travel or contact with a known coronavirus case, meaning the case was acquired through &#8220;community transmission&#8221; in the Seattle area, said Dr. Jeffrey Duchin, health officer for Public Health &#8211; Seattle &amp; King County.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Department of Health confirmed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22501,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22500\/revisions\/22501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}