{"id":32973,"date":"2021-03-17T22:33:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32973"},"modified":"2021-03-17T22:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T05:33:11","slug":"an-ominous-trend-german-covid-19-cases-rise-amid-astrazeneca-vaccine-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32973","title":{"rendered":"An ominous trend: German COVID-19 cases rise amid AstraZeneca vaccine suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus infections are on the rise in Germany as the country has joined more than a dozen European nations in suspending the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine over concerns of blood clots.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fbgrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglddhdgsd_jnsbvvjrjwbmbmsrjrfn.html?a=&amp;b=37661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fbgrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglddhdgsd_jnsbvvjrjwbmbmsrjrfn.html?a%3D%26b%3D37661&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1616110206955000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE9DGbL1jziLoxU2TRzxzTdtgiMug\">Robert Koch Institut<\/a>, Germany\u2019s center for infectious diseases, on Tuesday reported about 83.7 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, a jump from 68 just one week prior. The institute said that this number could reach 200 by mid-April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible third wave:<\/strong>\u00a0Dirk Brockmann, a Robert Koch Institut epidemiologist, told Germany\u2019s ARD television that the spike in cases indicates a third wave of COVID-19 in the country that was initially praised for its early response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Brockmann specifically attributed the increase to the government\u2019s easing of nationwide safety restrictions even as a new more transmissible variant has spread throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Experts warn that the increased rate of infection, as well as the suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine, could delay the country\u2019s progress toward reaching herd immunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus infections are on the rise&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32973","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=32973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32974,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32973\/revisions\/32974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}