{"id":366599,"date":"2025-12-24T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/366599\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:29:08","slug":"hospitals-to-temporarily-implement-visitor-restrictions-amid-increase-in-respiratory-illness-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/366599\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals to temporarily implement visitor restrictions amid increase in respiratory illness \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">DAYTON \u2014 Hospitals across the region are implementing temporary visitor restrictions amid a recent increase in respiratory illness beginning Dec. 26. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Area hospitals are currently seeing higher-than-normal volumes of patients with positive cases of respiratory illnesses, including influenza, COVID-19, and other seasonal viruses, according to the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">When implemented, the restrictions will be as follows: <\/p>\n<p>No visitation by anyone who is ill with any respiratory symptoms including coughing, fever, chills, headache, vomiting, sore throat, muscle aches or diarrheaNo visitation by anyone under age 14 even if they have received the seasonal influenza vaccine or receive the appropriate vaccine when it becomes available<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Hospitals are asking community members to postpone visiting if they are feeling unwell, especially if experiencing symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, or congestion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Visitor restrictions are temporary and will be reviewed regularly, GDAHA said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">GDAHA is a member-service organization representing 29 hospitals and health systems in the Dayton region. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON \u2014 Hospitals across the region are implementing temporary visitor restrictions amid a recent increase in respiratory illness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97,1493,93859,156878,32007,77817,28406],"class_list":["post-366599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-hospital","tag-miami-valley","tag-respiratory-illness","tag-restriction","tag-restrictions","tag-visitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}