{"id":17716,"date":"2022-02-18T07:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=17716"},"modified":"2022-02-18T07:50:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:50:40","slug":"coronavirus-as-ba-2-subvariant-of-omicron-rises-lab-studies-point-to-signs-of-severity-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=17716","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: As BA.2 subvariant of Omicron rises, lab studies point to signs of severity &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BA.2 virus &#8212; a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant &#8212; isn&#8217;t just spreading faster than its distant cousin, it may also cause more severe disease and appears capable of thwarting some of the key weapons we have against Covid-19, new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/17\/health\/ba-2-covid-severity\/index.html\">Coronavirus: As BA.2 subvariant of Omicron rises, lab studies point to signs of severity &#8211; CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;It looks like we might be looking at a new Greek letter here,&#8221; agreed Deborah Fuller, a virologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, who reviewed the study but was not part of the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BA.2 virus &#8212; a subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant &#8212;&#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-17716","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\/17716","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=17716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}