{"id":29169,"date":"2021-05-14T08:05:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T08:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=29169"},"modified":"2021-05-14T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T08:05:33","slug":"indian-covid-variant-could-overwhelm-nhs-if-it-proves-more-transmissible-than-kent-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/indian-covid-variant-could-overwhelm-nhs-if-it-proves-more-transmissible-than-kent-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Covid variant could overwhelm NHS if it proves more transmissible than Kent strain"},"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-27211\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/coroana-particle-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/coroana-particle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/coroana-particle-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/coroana-particle-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/coroana-particle.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NHS could be at\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/uk\/second-covid-jabs-could-be-brought-forward-indian-variant-cases-soar-b935067.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-id=\"55\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:55,&quot;p&quot;:53,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:2}\">risk of being overwhelmed if the Indian variant\u00a0<\/a>is more than 30 per cent more transmissible than the Kent strain, according to government modelling.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/newslondon\/indian-covid-variant-could-overwhelm-nhs-if-it-proves-more-transmissible-than-kent-strain\/ar-BB1gIOPb?ocid=msedgntp\">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 NHS could be at\u00a0risk of being overwhelmed if the Indian variant\u00a0is more than 30 per cent more transmissible than the Kent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29169","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\/coroana-particle.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169","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=29169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29170,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169\/revisions\/29170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}