{"id":135929,"date":"2022-02-21T20:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/more-contagious-version-of-omicron-spreads-in-u-s-fueling-worries"},"modified":"2022-02-21T20:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:22:54","slug":"more-contagious-version-of-omicron-spreads-in-u-s-fueling-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/more-contagious-version-of-omicron-spreads-in-u-s-fueling-worries","title":{"rendered":"More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-contagious-version-of-omicron-spreads-in-u-s-fueling-worries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The omicron BA\u20262 variant spreads about 30% more easily and has caused surges in other countries. Its steady increase in the U.S. raises questions about the wisdom of rolling back COVID restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The omicron BA\u20262 variant spreads about 30% more easily and has caused surges in other countries. Its steady increase in the U.S. raises questions about the wisdom of rolling back COVID restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135929","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=135929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}