{"id":130645,"date":"2021-11-15T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-identify-a-gene-variant-that-doubles-the-risk-of-dying-from-covid-19"},"modified":"2021-11-15T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:23:40","slug":"scientists-identify-a-gene-variant-that-doubles-the-risk-of-dying-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-identify-a-gene-variant-that-doubles-the-risk-of-dying-from-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Identify a Gene Variant That Doubles The Risk of Dying From COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-identify-a-gene-variant-that-doubles-the-risk-of-dying-from-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have identified a version of a gene that doubles a person\u2019s risk of severe COVID-19 and doubles the risk of death from the disease for people under 60.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The new Covid pills from Merck and Pfizer offer a ton of promise. But there\u2019s plenty we still don\u2019t know about how well they work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have identified a version of a gene that doubles a person\u2019s risk of severe COVID-19 and doubles the risk of death from the disease for people under 60. The new Covid pills from Merck and Pfizer offer a ton of promise. But there\u2019s plenty we still don\u2019t know about how well they work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130645","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\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}