{"id":13361,"date":"2020-02-12T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T14:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=13361"},"modified":"2020-03-03T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:15:28","slug":"georgia-couple-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=13361","title":{"rendered":"Georgia couple tests positive for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Georgia couple has tested positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2020\/01\/30\/the-coronavirus-has-spread-person-to-person-for-the-first-time-in-the-u-s\/\">Coronavirus<\/a> while onboard a cruise ship in Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Georgia Public Broadcasting, Clyde and Renee Smith &#8212; both 80-year-olds &#8212; were on the cruise ship with their grandchildren and have since been moved to a hospital in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family reports that the Smiths have not experienced any symptoms of the virus and are in rooms at the hospital next door to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Smiths live near Decatur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This outbreak of <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2020\/01\/24\/what-is-georgia-doing-to-prevent-coronavirus\/\">coronavirus<\/a> began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and continues to spread.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak now includes hundreds of confirmed infections and a growing number of deaths in several countries. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, some causing respiratory illness in people and others that circulate among animals, including camels, cats and bats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beginning of this outbreak has been linked to a large seafood and animal market in Wuhan. A growing number of patients reportedly have not had exposure to the animal markets and many healthcare workers have become infected, indicating person to person spread is occurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because this is a new coronavirus, we do not know everything about it yet. Based on patients with confirmed coronavirus, symptoms include&nbsp;fever and signs of lower respiratory illness, such as cough and shortness of breath, case-patients also develop pneumonia. The CDC says symptoms&nbsp;may appear in as few as 2 days or as long as 14 after exposure. There is currently no specific antiviral treatment for coronavirus infection or vaccine to prevent coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Georgia couple has tested positive for Coronavirus while onboard a cruise ship in Tokyo, Japan. According to Georgia Public Broadcasting, Clyde and Renee Smith &#8212; both 80-year-olds &#8212; were on the cruise ship with their grandchildren and have since been moved to a hospital in Japan. The family reports that the Smiths have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7286,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-family","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}