{"id":18762,"date":"2021-09-02T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18762"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T15:20:45","slug":"who-adds-new-strain-mu-to-its-variants-of-concern-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18762","title":{"rendered":"WHO adds new strain &#8216;mu&#8217; to its variants of concern list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Erica Carbajal for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization classified a new COVID-19 strain as a variant of concern Aug. 30. The strain, named mu, was first detected in Colombia in January, according to the WHO&#8217;s weekly COVID-19 epidemiological update.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/public-health\/who-adds-new-strain-mu-to-its-variants-of-concern-list.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WHO.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18763\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/WHO.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Erica Carbajal for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The World Health Organization classified a new COVID-19 strain as a variant of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18764,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18762\/revisions\/18764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}