{"id":17316,"date":"2022-01-31T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:12:44","slug":"explainer-scientists-on-alert-over-rising-cases-caused-by-omicron-cousin-ba-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=17316","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: Scientists on alert over rising cases caused by Omicron cousin BA.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus &#8211; the most common form of which is known as BA.1 &#8211; now accounts for nearly all of the coronavirus infections globally, although dramatic surges in COVID cases have already peaked in some countries.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/scientists-alert-over-rising-cases-caused-by-omicron-cousin-ba2-2022-01-30\/\">Explainer: Scientists on alert over rising cases caused by Omicron cousin BA.2<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus &#8211; the most&#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":[169,1154,21],"class_list":["post-17316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-ba2","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316","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=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}