{"id":33283,"date":"2021-12-21T10:57:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T10:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=33283"},"modified":"2021-12-21T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T10:57:29","slug":"us-confirms-its-first-omicron-death-as-unvaccinated-houston-man-in-his-50s-whod-previously-been-infected-with-covid-and-who-suffered-from-underlying-conditions-with-variant-now-the-dominant-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/21\/us-confirms-its-first-omicron-death-as-unvaccinated-houston-man-in-his-50s-whod-previously-been-infected-with-covid-and-who-suffered-from-underlying-conditions-with-variant-now-the-dominant-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"US confirms its first Omicron death as unvaccinated Houston man in his 50s who&#8217;d PREVIOUSLY been infected with COVID and who suffered from underlying conditions, with variant now the dominant strain that&#8217;s causing 73% of new infections"},"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-32879\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Omicron-variant.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>America has recorded its first death caused by the COVID Omicron variant, with the victim a Texas man in his 50s who was unvaccinated and had already been infected before.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10330675\/Omicron-sweeps-nation-73-US-COVID-19-cases.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>America has recorded its first death caused by the COVID Omicron variant, with the victim a Texas man in his 50s who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33283","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-variant.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33283","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=33283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33284,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33283\/revisions\/33284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}