{"id":27365,"date":"2021-02-17T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=27365"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:27:01","slug":"uk-and-californian-coronavirus-variants-have-merged-into-one-rare-combination-event-spotted-in-american-patient-could-create-strain-that-spreads-rapidly-and-dodges-immunity-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/17\/uk-and-californian-coronavirus-variants-have-merged-into-one-rare-combination-event-spotted-in-american-patient-could-create-strain-that-spreads-rapidly-and-dodges-immunity-scientists-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and Californian coronavirus variants have MERGED into one: Rare combination event spotted in American patient could create strain that spreads rapidly and dodges immunity, scientists warn"},"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-27366\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nine-variants-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nine-variants-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nine-variants-500x309.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nine-variants-360x223.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/nine-variants.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A hybrid version of the\u00a0<a id=\"mol-ff29a6e0-710f-11eb-9343-c3af1634c550\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\">coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0has surfaced in\u00a0<a id=\"mol-ff2d9e80-710f-11eb-9343-c3af1634c550\" class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/california\/index.html\">California<\/a> after the British Kent variant and a strain found in the US merged together inside an infected person.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9269271\/UK-California-Covid-variants-merged-coronavirus-case-scientists-say.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>A hybrid version of the\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0has surfaced in\u00a0California after the British Kent variant and a strain found in the US merged together inside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27365","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\/2021\/02\/nine-variants.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27365","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=27365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27367,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27365\/revisions\/27367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}