{"id":19200,"date":"2021-12-02T07:22:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19200"},"modified":"2021-12-02T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T12:26:13","slug":"19200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19200","title":{"rendered":"First case of Omicron coronavirus variant identified in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading\"><em><br>(By<\/em>\u00a0 Andrew Joseph for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. health officials on Wednesday reported the country\u2019s first case of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/11\/26\/whats-known-and-unknown-about-the-coronavirus-variant-identified-in-south-africa\/\">Omicron variant<\/a>\u00a0of the coronavirus, in a person in California. Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/12\/01\/first-case-omicron-coronavirus-variant-identified-united-states\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2021\/12\/01\/first-case-omicron-coronavirus-variant-identified-united-states\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"16\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0 Andrew Joseph for STAT) U.S. health officials on Wednesday reported the country\u2019s first case of the\u00a0Omicron variant\u00a0of the coronavirus,<\/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-19200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200","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=19200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19205,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19200\/revisions\/19205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}