{"id":5088,"date":"2020-04-18T06:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T10:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2020-04-18T06:43:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T10:43:06","slug":"two-employees-of-liberty-university-test-positive-for-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5088","title":{"rendered":"Two employees of Liberty University test positive for the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Liberty University employees have tested positive for COVID-19, two were awaiting test results and seven have been asked to self-quarantine, the university has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The diagnoses mark the first coronavirus cases among the thousands of people who work at Liberty, the largest employer in the Lynchburg region.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As I said all along: Dangerous and outrageous. Deeply worried about the community where I grew up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O6mDgAv87u\">https:\/\/t.co\/O6mDgAv87u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dagen McDowell (@dagenmcdowell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dagenmcdowell\/status\/1250882475494170631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmond.com\/special-report\/coronavirus\/two-employees-of-liberty-university-test-positive-for-the-coronavirus\/article_48c50cfe-31fb-5020-81e7-145c610f0ec4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Liberty University employees have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, two are awaiting test results and seven have been asked to self-quarantine, the university announced Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5088\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two employees of Liberty University test positive for the coronavirus<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-two-employees-of-liberty-university-test-positive-for-the-coronavirus","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1k4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5088\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}