{"id":29299,"date":"2020-11-19T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29299"},"modified":"2020-11-19T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:23:08","slug":"new-york-city-schools-to-shut-down-amid-rise-in-coronavirus-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29299","title":{"rendered":"New York City schools to shut down amid rise in coronavirus cases\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City public schools will close starting Thursday amid a rise in COVID-19 cases, Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ntfjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqwttytd_hmnvccbqbzvwnchsncwm.html?a=&amp;b=34948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ntfjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqwttytd_hmnvccbqbzvwnchsncwm.html?a%3D%26b%3D34948&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1605827189333000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0MFLVnGC6EBUf3RJLGQIaP\">Bill de Blasio<\/a>\u00a0(D) announced.<\/p>\n<p>The move is a setback for the city, which still has one of the lowest rates of infection in the country. Officials have worried about a new wave of cases as the number of infections tick upwards in New York and across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must fight back the second wave of COVID-19,\u201d de Blasio tweeted Wednesday when announcing the closure, which will affect all public school buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Officials had previously said schools would close again if the percentage of tests coming back positive in New York City reached 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why it matters:\u00a0<\/em>Many public health experts were critical of the move, noting that bars and restaurants remain open in NYC but are a greater contributor to the spread of COVID than schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City public schools will&#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-29299","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\/29299","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=29299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29300,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29299\/revisions\/29300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}