{"id":44802,"date":"2020-03-05T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/70-washington-coronavirus-cases-inslee-announces-testing-cost-relief\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T12:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T20:05:30","slug":"70-washington-coronavirus-cases-inslee-announces-testing-cost-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/70-washington-coronavirus-cases-inslee-announces-testing-cost-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"70 Washington coronavirus cases; Inslee announces testing-cost relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Jay Inslee announced Thursday (March 5) at a press conference that state officials can now order private insurers to waive coronavirus testing prices if someone getting tested does not have their own medical insurance.<\/p>\n<p>This is a result of Inslee&rsquo;s issuance of a state emergency declaration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a period of substantial anxiety in our state,&rdquo; Inslee said at the press conference. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s real. It&rsquo;s significant. And we need to recognize it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As of 11 a.m. March 5, Department of Health has confirmed 70 confirmed positive cases in Washington; 51 are in King County, 18 are in Snohomish County and one is in Grant County. There have been 10 deaths &mdash; nine were in King County and one was in Snohomish County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inslee addressed the outbreak at a Thursday press conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":44803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44802"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}