{"id":45731,"date":"2020-12-24T17:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45731"},"modified":"2020-12-24T17:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:15:58","slug":"update-on-covid-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45731","title":{"rendered":"Update on COVID test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVIDtesting%20%23pandemic&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43342\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pandemic-clipart-h1n1-pandemic-concept-11580262.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I took the liberty the other day of announcing to the planet that my wife and I had taken a test to see if we had become infected with the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n<p>We learned this morning we both tested <em>negative.<\/em> The young woman who called with the results was practically giddy when she gave us the news. I don&#8217;t know if she feared for us or whether she had grown weary of delivering bad news to patients who came to the McKinney clinic for coronavirus testing.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. We ain&#8217;t infected. We certainly ain&#8217;t sick.<\/p>\n<p>We also are not out of the proverbial woods, even with the vaccine that is being injected into the arms of thousands of Americans each day.<\/p>\n<p>Mask up, keep your distance, wash your hands &#8230; and <em>keep your voice down,<\/em> America.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=COVIDtesting%20%23pandemic&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I took the liberty the other day of announcing to the planet that my wife and I had taken a test to see if we had become infected with the COVID-19 virus. We learned this morning we both tested negative. The young woman who called with the results was practically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on COVID test<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[9236,9257,9261],"class_list":["post-45731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-medical-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45732,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45731\/revisions\/45732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}