{"id":2368,"date":"2020-04-08T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2020-04-08T15:26:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:26:21","slug":"indian-health-service-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/04\/08\/indian-health-service-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Health Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Health Service has updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/coronavirus\/\">coronavirus testing data<\/a>, showing results as of 7pm on April 7, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data, 8,934 people have been tested within the IHS system. Of those, 661 have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. That represents an increase of nearly 18 percent from the <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=2294\">prior results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Within certain regions, COVID-19 positive cases continue to grow at even higher rates. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/oklahomacity\/\">Oklahoma City Area<\/a>, for example, has seen an increase of nearly 74 percent, according to the data.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/portland\/\">Portland Area<\/a>, which covers Oregon, Washington and Idaho, saw a 28 percent increase on COVID-19 positive cases from the prior results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Data is reported from IHS, tribal, and urban Indian organization facilities, though reporting by tribal and urban programs is voluntary,&#8221; the agency says on its website. &#8220;This is a rapidly evolving situation and the IHS will provide updated information as it becomes available and is verified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<table class=\"table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>IHS Area<\/th>\n<th>Tested<\/th>\n<th>Positive<\/th>\n<th>Negative<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Alaska<\/td>\n<td>1,035<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>365<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Albuquerque<\/td>\n<td>656<\/td>\n<td>105<\/td>\n<td>312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bemidji<\/td>\n<td>110<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Billings<\/td>\n<td>1,186<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>619<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>California<\/td>\n<td>458<\/td>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<td>335<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great Plains<\/td>\n<td>251<\/td>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<td>197<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nashville<\/td>\n<td>86<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Navajo<\/td>\n<td>2,533<\/td>\n<td>322<\/td>\n<td>1,833<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oklahoma City<\/td>\n<td>1,434<\/td>\n<td>59<\/td>\n<td>991<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Phoenix<\/td>\n<td>341<\/td>\n<td>37<\/td>\n<td>269<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Portland<\/td>\n<td>553<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<td>456<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tucson<\/td>\n<td>291<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>195<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>TOTAL<\/th>\n<th>8,934<\/th>\n<th>661<\/th>\n<th>5,713<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Indian Health Service: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/coronavirus\/\">https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/coronavirus\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Health Service has updated its coronavirus testing data, with 661 COVID-19 cases as of April 7, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions","tag-ihs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}