{"id":33289,"date":"2021-12-21T11:10:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=33289"},"modified":"2021-12-21T11:10:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T11:10:52","slug":"everything-the-scientists-know-right-now-about-omicron-how-soon-does-booster-protection-kick-in-why-are-the-symptoms-different-from-the-delta-variant-and-can-lateral-flow-tests-spot-it-leading-exp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/21\/everything-the-scientists-know-right-now-about-omicron-how-soon-does-booster-protection-kick-in-why-are-the-symptoms-different-from-the-delta-variant-and-can-lateral-flow-tests-spot-it-leading-exp\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything the scientists know right now about Omicron: How soon does booster protection kick in? Why are the symptoms different from the Delta variant? And can lateral flow tests spot it? Leading experts answer the vital questions"},"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-33130\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-770x509.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-500x331.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant-360x238.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The evidence so far suggests the infection is generally mild and may damage the lungs less than Delta and the original Wuhan strain.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10330355\/Everything-scientists-know-right-Omicron.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 evidence so far suggests the infection is generally mild and may damage the lungs less than Delta and the original Wuhan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33289","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\/12\/Omicron-covid-variant.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33289","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=33289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33290,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33289\/revisions\/33290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}