{"id":15394,"date":"2021-11-27T00:33:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=15394"},"modified":"2021-11-27T00:33:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T05:33:55","slug":"who-skips-two-letters-in-greek-alphabet-in-naming-omicron-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=15394","title":{"rendered":"WHO skips two letters in Greek alphabet in naming Omicron COVID&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has international health experts worried, financial markets stumbled \u2014 and the Internet baffled over how the new name was chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/26\/who-skips-two-letters-in-alphabet-in-naming-omicron-variant\/\">WHO skips two letters in Greek alphabet in naming Omicron COVID&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has international health experts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[169,787,547],"class_list":["post-15394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-variants","tag-who","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}