{"id":9155,"date":"2021-01-28T20:05:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/28\/washington-has-the-6th-most-coronavirus-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:37:56","slug":"washington-has-the-6th-most-coronavirus-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/washington-has-the-6th-most-coronavirus-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington has the 6th most coronavirus restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/washington-6th-most-coronavirus-restrictions-192129964.html\">Yahoo! News<\/a><\/strong> about states with the most COVID-19 restrictions, Seattle-based reporter Charles Woodman cites a report compiled by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/states-coronavirus-restrictions\/73818\">WalletHub<\/a><\/strong>. Leading the pack with the most restrictions is California, with Oklahoma in the lead for fewest COVID constraints.<\/p>\n<p>For comment on how closures, lockdowns and other restrictions affect local and state economies, Woodman quoted Kelsey Hample, a Furman University economics professor and one of the six faculty experts on the WalletHub study. She said, &#8220;Epidemiologists warn that if we open too early, the spread of COVID-19 will increase exponentially again. This will renew the economic issues we are already facing. Being sick is costly. If a person cannot work, she might lose income or her firm may have to pay a wage without producing something of value.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published on Yahoo! News about states with the most COVID-19 restrictions, Seattle-based reporter Charles Woodman cites a report compiled by WalletHub. Leading the pack with the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[255,400,655,656],"class_list":["post-9155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-economics","tag-lockdowns","tag-non-essential-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}