{"id":26310,"date":"2021-01-05T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26310"},"modified":"2021-01-05T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T08:38:35","slug":"scientists-can-tweak-covid-vaccines-to-target-new-mutant-strains-in-days-experts-claim-amid-fears-about-highly-infectious-south-african-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/05\/scientists-can-tweak-covid-vaccines-to-target-new-mutant-strains-in-days-experts-claim-amid-fears-about-highly-infectious-south-african-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists can tweak Covid vaccines to target new mutant strains in DAYS, experts claim amid fears about highly-infectious South African variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24828\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-300x206.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-300x206.gif 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-770x527.gif 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-500x343.gif 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation-360x247.gif 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Current Covid vaccines could be reprogrammed to target new strains in just &#8216;a few days&#8217;, experts said today in a bid to calm fears about the South African variant.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9111573\/Scientists-tweak-Covid-vaccines-target-new-mutant-strains-DAYS-experts-claim.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Current Covid vaccines could be reprogrammed to target new strains in just &#8216;a few days&#8217;, experts said today in a bid to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/corona-mutation.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26311,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26310\/revisions\/26311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}