{"id":107749,"date":"2020-12-02T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=107749"},"modified":"2020-12-02T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:53:29","slug":"mississippi-state-department-of-health-urges-citizens-avoid-all-social-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-state-department-of-health-urges-citizens-avoid-all-social-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State Department of Health Urges Citizens Avoid All Social Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Due to the rapidly rising burden of <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> cases, excessive hospitalizations and the high risk\u00a0of COVID-19 infection in the community, the <strong>Mississippi State Department of Health<\/strong> (MSDH)\u00a0is issuing the following Public Health Guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All residents of <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>should avoid any social gathering that includes individuals\u00a0outside of the nuclear family or household.\u00a0MSDH recommends that Mississippians only\u00a0participate in work, school, or other absolutely essential activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MSDH recommends that all Mississippians protect themselves and their families by avoiding&nbsp;public or social gatherings such as the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Social events or parties<br>\u2022 Family gatherings outside of the household or nuclear family<br>\u2022 Weddings<br>\u2022 Funerals (other than close family and preferably outdoors)<br>\u2022 Sporting events<br>\u2022 In-person church services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the rapidly rising burden of COVID-19 cases, excessive hospitalizations and the high risk\u00a0of COVID-19 infection in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":95017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16346],"tags":[16052,5,16144],"class_list":["post-107749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-covid-19","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MississippiCoronavirus.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}