{"id":57,"date":"2023-08-14T17:48:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2023-08-14T17:48:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:48:50","slug":"should-my-pet-get-tested-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Should my pet get tested for covid-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of March 15, 2022, the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine has the capability to test for the new COVID-19 in pets. The test request must be submitted by a veterinarian and must include the rationale for the test. Requests will then be sent to the state animal health officer and state public health veterinarian for approval on a case-by-case basis. In the event of a positive result, these same officials must be notified before the referring veterinarian.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please contact the diagnostic laboratory with any further questions at (217) 333-1620.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of March 15, 2022, the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hireveterinarians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}