{"id":9752,"date":"2020-06-04T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:48:21","slug":"news-press-now-lower-covid-cases-could-mean-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/04\/news-press-now-lower-covid-cases-could-mean-rule-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Lower COVID cases could mean rule changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>A local chemistry expert has found that new cases of COVID-19 may be declining, which could affect City Council actions on social distancing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>On Thursday, the St. Joseph City Council met to discuss the future of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjoemo.info\/917\/COVID-19-Updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current social distancing order<\/a>, which is set to expire on June 15, along with Governor Mike Parson\u2019s state order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>During the meeting, Dr. Gary Clapp, an associate professor of chemistry at Missouri Western State University, showed the council three graphs that indicate that the number of new cases of coronavirus are declining after the huge spike caused by cases found at Triumph Foods last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/lower-covid-cases-could-mean-rule-changes\/article_e292e40e-a669-11ea-92d8-ffafde2f9206.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local chemistry expert has found that new cases of COVID-19 may be declining, which could affect City Council actions on social distancing. On Thursday, the St. Joseph City Council met to discuss the future of the\u00a0current social distancing order, which is set to expire on June 15, along with Governor Mike Parson\u2019s state order. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9754,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions\/9754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}