Issue with Analytics_Schema::create_content_table()

Recently it was brought to my attention that a particular sub-site of ours that uses the EmbedPress plugin was no longer loading. We are currently on version 4.7.1. The error stack appears below. What can I do to get beyond this? It appears that “CREATE TABLE IF …” has long been used in both WP and EmbedPress. Can you help me understand why this is breaking now?

Thanks, Terrence

Stack trace: 0 /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php(2353): mysqli_query(Object(mysqli), ‘DESCRIBE IF;’) 1 /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php(2267): wpdb->_do_query(‘DESCRIBE IF;’) 2 /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php(3213): wpdb->query(‘DESCRIBE IF;’) 3 /var/www/html/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php(3027): wpdb->get_results(‘DESCRIBE IF;’) 4 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/embedpress/EmbedPress/Includes/Classes/Database/Analytics_Schema.php(243): dbDelta(Array) 5 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/embedpress/EmbedPress/Includes/Classes/Database/Analytics_Schema.php(45): EmbedPress\Includes\Classes\Database\Analytics_Schema::create_content_table(‘DEFAULT CHARACT…’) 6 /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/embedpress/EmbedPress/Includes/Classes/Analytics/Analytics_Manager.php(150): EmbedPress\Includes\Classes\Database\Analytics_Schema::create_tables() 7 /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(353): EmbedPress\Includes\Classes\Analytics\Analytics_Manager->ensure_tables_exist(”) 8 /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(377): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) 9 /var/www/html/wp-includes/plugin.php(523): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) 10 /var/www/html/wp-settings.php(779): do_action(‘init’) 11 /var/www/html/wp-config.php(115): require_once(‘/var/www/html/w…’) 12 /var/www/html/wp-load.php(50): require_once(‘/var/www/html/w…’) 13 /var/www/html/wp-blog-header.php(13): require_once(‘/var/www/html/w…’) 14 /var/www/html/index.php(17): require(‘/var/www/html/w…’) 15 {main}

thrown in /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php on line 2353