{"id":20768,"date":"2022-07-15T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=20768"},"modified":"2022-07-15T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:01:35","slug":"centaurus-virologists-express-concern-at-new-covid-subvariant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=20768","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Centaurus\u2019: virologists express concern at new Covid subvariant"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Omicron variant BA.2.75 has been detected in India, UK, US, Australia, Germany and Canada<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/centaurus-virologists-express-concern-at-new-covid-subvariant-omicron\">\u2018Centaurus\u2019: virologists express concern at new Covid subvariant<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cIt\u2019s not so much the exact mutations, more the number\/combination,\u201d said Dr Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London, who was the first to identify Omicron as a potential concern back in November 2021. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to predict the effect of that many mutations appearing together \u2013 it gives the virus a bit of a \u2018wildcard\u2019 property where the sum of the parts could be worse than the parts individually.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omicron variant BA.2.75 has been detected in India, UK, US, Australia, Germany&#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":[169,1378,21],"class_list":["post-20768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19ba-2-75-centarus","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20768","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=20768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}