{"id":33191,"date":"2021-12-16T09:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T09:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=33191"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:25:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T09:25:07","slug":"omicron-spreads-70-times-faster-in-airways-than-delta-but-10-times-slower-in-lungs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/16\/omicron-spreads-70-times-faster-in-airways-than-delta-but-10-times-slower-in-lungs\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron spreads 70 times faster in airways than delta but 10 times slower in lungs"},"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-32842\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/omicron.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Omicron multiplies 70 times faster in the airways than\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/12\/15\/omicron-symptoms-covid-variant-vaccine-coronavirus-booster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-id=\"113\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:113,&quot;p&quot;:49,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:33}\">delta\u00a0<\/a>yet replicates 10 times more slowly in the lungs,which may explain why it is very transmissible but less severe,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/omicron-spreads-70-times-faster-in-airways-than-delta-but-10-times-slower-in-lungs\/ar-AARQPwN?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>Omicron multiplies 70 times faster in the airways than\u00a0delta\u00a0yet replicates 10 times more slowly in the lungs,which may explain why it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33191","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\/11\/omicron.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191","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=33191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33193,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33191\/revisions\/33193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}