{"id":109550,"date":"2020-07-05T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T22:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/researchers-indicate-covid-19-mutation-has-made-virus-more-contagious"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T22:02:18","slug":"researchers-indicate-covid-19-mutation-has-made-virus-more-contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/researchers-indicate-covid-19-mutation-has-made-virus-more-contagious","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Indicate COVID-19 Mutation Has Made Virus More Contagious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-indicate-covid-19-mutation-has-made-virus-more-contagious2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Northwest University\u2019s medical school in Chicago believe a mutation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/complex.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">coronavirus<\/a> has made it considerably more contagious.<\/p>\n<p>Infection disease special Egon Ozer of the Feinberg School of Medicine has said that upon examining the genetic structure of coronavirus samples, it was evident there was a change in one of the amino acids that allowed a spike in protein on the surface of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>In layman\u2019s terms, this change has allowed the virus to penetrate nearby cells easier, and as a result the virus can replicate faster and be passed on easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Northwest University\u2019s medical school in Chicago believe a mutation in the coronavirus has made it considerably more contagious. Infection disease special Egon Ozer of the Feinberg School of Medicine has said that upon examining the genetic structure of coronavirus samples, it was evident there was a change in one of the amino acids [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}