{"id":132776,"date":"2021-12-20T19:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T03:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/omicron-variant-sweeps-across-nation-becoming-dominant-strain-in-us-covid-19-cases"},"modified":"2021-12-20T19:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T03:22:37","slug":"omicron-variant-sweeps-across-nation-becoming-dominant-strain-in-us-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/omicron-variant-sweeps-across-nation-becoming-dominant-strain-in-us-covid-19-cases","title":{"rendered":"Omicron variant sweeps across nation, becoming dominant strain in US COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/omicron-variant-sweeps-across-nation-becoming-dominant-strain-in-us-covid-19-cases2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron\u2019s share of infections in only one week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron\u2019s share of infections in only one week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132776","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=132776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}