{"id":131456,"date":"2021-11-29T15:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/omicron-variant-drives-rise-in-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-south-africa-hot-spot"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:23:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T23:23:51","slug":"omicron-variant-drives-rise-in-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-south-africa-hot-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/omicron-variant-drives-rise-in-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-south-africa-hot-spot","title":{"rendered":"Omicron Variant Drives Rise in Covid-19 Hospitalizations in South Africa Hot Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/n-omicron-variant-drives-rise-in-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-south-africa-hot-spotn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The variant\u2019s emergence in South Africa has driven a sharp increase in hospitalizations in Gauteng province during the past two weeks, although fewer patients than in previous surges are being treated for severe disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The variant\u2019s emergence in South Africa has driven a sharp increase in hospitalizations in Gauteng province during the past two weeks, although fewer patients than in previous surges are being treated for severe disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131456","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}