{"id":19348,"date":"2022-01-07T07:57:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19348"},"modified":"2022-01-07T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:57:44","slug":"what-we-know-about-the-symptoms-and-the-severity-of-the-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19348","title":{"rendered":"What we know about the symptoms \u2014 and the severity \u2014 of the omicron variant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Michaeleen Doucleff and Will Stone for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it was discovered, omicron alarmed scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The variant looked wildly different from earlier versions of the coronavirus \u2014 and it quickly became clear that these mutations gave omicron an uncanny ability to sidestep our vaccines and spread very rapidly.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2022\/01\/06\/1070622880\/what-we-know-about-the-symptoms-and-the-severity-of-the-omicron-variant\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2022\/01\/06\/1070622880\/what-we-know-about-the-symptoms-and-the-severity-of-the-omicron-variant\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"72\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/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 Michaeleen Doucleff and Will Stone for NPR) When it was discovered, omicron alarmed scientists. The variant looked wildly different<\/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-19348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19348","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=19348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19349,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19348\/revisions\/19349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}