{"id":26424,"date":"2021-01-11T07:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T07:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26424"},"modified":"2021-01-11T07:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T07:11:54","slug":"super-covid-the-mutant-uk-strain-that-is-surging-through-us-is-more-contagious-because-it-replicates-in-the-throat-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/super-covid-the-mutant-uk-strain-that-is-surging-through-us-is-more-contagious-because-it-replicates-in-the-throat-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Super-COVID &#8211; the mutant UK strain that is surging through US &#8211; is more contagious because it replicates in the throat, says study"},"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-24272\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/oral-test-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/oral-test-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/oral-test-360x221.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/oral-test.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mutant strain of\u00a0<a id=\"mol-29630890-534f-11eb-9102-5d337686a261\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\">coronavirus<\/a> is 70 per cent more contagious than the original because it replicates faster in the throat, scientists believe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9131411\/New-mutant-strain-coronavirus-contagious-replicates-throat-says-study.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>The mutant strain of\u00a0coronavirus is 70 per cent more contagious than the original because it replicates faster in the throat, scientists believe&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26424","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=26424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26425,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26424\/revisions\/26425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}