{"id":20383,"date":"2021-01-14T11:56:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=20383"},"modified":"2021-01-14T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T17:06:19","slug":"georgia-police-chief-hospitalized-with-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=20383","title":{"rendered":"Georgia police chief hospitalized with coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WALTHOURVILLE &#8212; A Georgia police chief is in the hospital with coronavirus. Walthourville Police Chief Jerry Blash was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and COVID-19, according to his former employer, the Burke County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blash served as a captain in Burke County prior to leaving to be Police Chief in Walthourville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on its Facebook page, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2020\/06\/02\/burke-county-sheriff-we-must-call-out-the-bad-actions-of-police-officers\/\">Burke County Sheriff&#8217;s<\/a> Department did not mince words about taking the virus seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Stop all of the conspiracy theories. Wear a mask as an act of respect towards others. Unfortunately, many people don&#8217;t take things such as this seriously enough until it personally affects them. Wash your hands often, stay home if you are sick, wear a mask in public, sanitize surfaces as needed, and check out the CDC website in order to make an educated and informed decision regarding getting the vaccine,&#8221; the department posted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Walthourville Police Department office has been closed since Jan. 5 due to <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2020\/12\/10\/36-recently-elected-georgia-sheriffs-in-quarantine-after-covid-19-exposure\/\">COVID-19 exposure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WALTHOURVILLE &#8212; A Georgia police chief is in the hospital with coronavirus. Walthourville Police Chief Jerry Blash was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and COVID-19, according to his former employer, the Burke County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Blash served as a captain in Burke County prior to leaving to be Police Chief in Walthourville. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20384,"comment_status":"closed","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],"tags":[8889,8481,8480,8473,8474],"class_list":["post-20383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-burke-county","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-media","tag-sun","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383","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=20383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}