{"id":22991,"date":"2022-10-23T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=22991"},"modified":"2022-10-23T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T20:06:26","slug":"new-immune-evasive-omicron-strains-are-coming-is-canada-ready-cbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=22991","title":{"rendered":"New immune-evasive Omicron strains are coming. Is Canada ready? | CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-10-23-16_04_38-New-immune-evasive-Omicron-strains-are-coming.-Is-Canada-ready_-_-CBC-News.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22996 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-10-23-16_04_38-New-immune-evasive-Omicron-strains-are-coming.-Is-Canada-ready_-_-CBC-News.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-10-23-16_04_38-New-immune-evasive-Omicron-strains-are-coming.-Is-Canada-ready_-_-CBC-News.jpg 959w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-10-23-16_04_38-New-immune-evasive-Omicron-strains-are-coming.-Is-Canada-ready_-_-CBC-News-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-10-23-16_04_38-New-immune-evasive-Omicron-strains-are-coming.-Is-Canada-ready_-_-CBC-News-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-10-23-16_04_38-New-immune-evasive-Omicron-strains-are-coming.-Is-Canada-ready_-_-CBC-News-750x515.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022-10-23-16_04_38-New-immune-evasive-Omicron-strains-are-coming.-Is-Canada-ready_-_-CBC-News-675x463.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;All of the subvariants of Omicron are showing increased transmissibility and properties of immune escape,&#8221; the WHO&#8217;s COVID-19 technical lead Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said during a news conference Thursday, adding that subvariants XBB and BQ.1.1\u00a0have shown\u00a0&#8220;significant immune evasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/omicron-subvariants-immune-escape-bivalent-covid-19-vaccines-canada-1.6625212\">New immune-evasive Omicron strains are coming. Is Canada ready? | CBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All of the subvariants of Omicron are showing increased transmissibility and properties&#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":[1510,84,169,147],"class_list":["post-22991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-2022-q4","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-ontario","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991","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=22991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}