{"id":137293,"date":"2022-03-23T23:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/omicrons-stealth-subvariant-ba-2-could-go-wild-in-europe-before-going-global-top-epidemiologist-says"},"modified":"2022-03-23T23:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T06:03:19","slug":"omicrons-stealth-subvariant-ba-2-could-go-wild-in-europe-before-going-global-top-epidemiologist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/omicrons-stealth-subvariant-ba-2-could-go-wild-in-europe-before-going-global-top-epidemiologist-says","title":{"rendered":"Omicron\u2019s \u2018stealth\u2019 subvariant BA.2 could go \u2018wild\u2019 in Europe before going global, top epidemiologist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/omicrons-stealth-subvariant-ba-2-could-go-wild-in-europe-before-going-global-top-epidemiologist-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 While war rages in Ukraine, not much attention is being paid to surging Covid-19 cases across Europe that could soon start to filter out to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in cases across the continent, from the U.K. and France to Italy and Austria, is being driven by several factors: The lifting of most \u2014 if not all \u2014 Covid restrictions, waning immunity from vaccines and booster shots, and the spread of the more transmissible omicron subvariant, BA.2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all hoped and expected a different turn now at the beginning of spring,\u201d Ralf Reintjes, professor of epidemiology at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, told CNBC this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 While war rages in Ukraine, not much attention is being paid to surging Covid-19 cases across Europe that could soon start to filter out to the rest of the world. The rise in cases across the continent, from the U.K. and France to Italy and Austria, is being driven by several factors: The [\u2026]<\/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-137293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137293","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=137293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}