{"id":2988,"date":"2020-04-18T21:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T01:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2020-04-18T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T01:08:26","slug":"indian-health-service-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/04\/18\/indian-health-service-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Health Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Health Service has updated its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/coronavirus\/\">coronavirus testing data<\/a>, showing results as of 11:59pm Eastern on April 16, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data, 15,656 have been tested within the IHS system. Of those, 1,455 are positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. That represents an increase of nearly 11 percent from the <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=2981\">1,313 cases previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The data shows a growth in testing in most regions of the system. For example, the Albuquerque Area saw an increase of nearly 22 percent. The number of COVID-19 positive case rose by 14 percent in the region when compared to prior results.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Area saw a 21 percent increase in testing. Positive cases in the region rose by almost 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, testing grew by nearly 8.7 percent between April 15 and April 16.<\/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 states on its website.<\/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>1,300<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>646<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Albuquerque<\/td>\n<td>1,799<\/td>\n<td>223<\/td>\n<td>792<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bemidji<\/td>\n<td>145<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>113<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Billings<\/td>\n<td>1,889<\/td>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td>1,716<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>California<\/td>\n<td>654<\/td>\n<td>43<\/td>\n<td>524<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great Plains<\/td>\n<td>329<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>271<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nashville<\/td>\n<td>823<\/td>\n<td>28<\/td>\n<td>458<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Navajo<\/td>\n<td>4,300<\/td>\n<td>812<\/td>\n<td>2,951<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oklahoma City<\/td>\n<td>2,364<\/td>\n<td>84<\/td>\n<td>1,834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Phoenix<\/td>\n<td>759<\/td>\n<td>115<\/td>\n<td>535<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Portland<\/td>\n<td>765<\/td>\n<td>71<\/td>\n<td>637<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tucson<\/td>\n<td>529<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>429<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>TOTAL<\/th>\n<th>15,656<\/th>\n<th>1,455<\/th>\n<th>10,906<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>IHS:&nbsp;<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\u00a0coronavirus testing data, showing 1,455 COVID-19 positive cases.<\/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-2988","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\/2988","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=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}