{"id":142140,"date":"2022-07-13T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-worst-variant-is-here"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T21:22:28","slug":"the-worst-variant-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/the-worst-variant-is-here","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018worst variant\u2019 is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worst-variant-is-here2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly two-and-a-half years since the coronavirus pandemic began, the most infectious and transmissible variant yet has arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Repeated Covid-19 waves have left millions of people dead, with only vaccines helping to blunt the toll. Now the virus is spreading again \u2014 evolving, escaping immunity and driving an uptick in cases and hospitalizations. The latest version of its shape-shifting, BA.5, is a clear sign that the pandemic is far from over.<\/p>\n<p>The newest offshoot of Omicron, along with a closely related variant, BA.4, are fueling a global surge in cases \u2014 30% over the past fortnight, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two-and-a-half years since the coronavirus pandemic began, the most infectious and transmissible variant yet has arrived. Repeated Covid-19 waves have left millions of people dead, with only vaccines helping to blunt the toll. Now the virus is spreading again \u2014 evolving, escaping immunity and driving an uptick in cases and hospitalizations. The latest version [\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-142140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142140","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=142140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}