{"id":1276,"date":"2022-02-17T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2022-02-17T14:51:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T21:51:06","slug":"new-mutant-omicron-feared-to-be-the-most-contagious-variant-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"New Mutant Omicron Feared to Be the Most Contagious Variant Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/ba2-omicron-could-just-be-the-most-contagious-covid-yet\">Just when it looked like Omicron had peaked, a stealthy new variant is starting to surge and experts are warning it\u2019s even \u201cmore contagious.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Just a couple weeks ago it seemed like the worst was behind us and the wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the\u00a0new Omicron variant\u00a0was beginning to ebb in many of the worst-hit places.\u00a0\u00a0But epidemiologists warned that\u00a0some new variant\u00a0would eventually replace Omicron,\u00a0potentially driving a new surge in cases. They were right.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when it looked like Omicron had peaked, a stealthy new variant is starting to surge and experts are warning it\u2019s even \u201cmore contagious.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Just a couple weeks ago it seemed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knightlab.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}