{"id":33319,"date":"2021-12-23T08:37:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=33319"},"modified":"2021-12-23T08:37:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T08:37:43","slug":"data-that-omicron-causes-milder-illness-than-delta-is-good-news-but-two-big-questions-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/23\/data-that-omicron-causes-milder-illness-than-delta-is-good-news-but-two-big-questions-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"Data that Omicron &#8217;causes milder illness than Delta&#8217; is good news but two big questions remain"},"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\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/covid-risk-of-hospitalisation-with-omicron-appears-to-be-two-thirds-lower-than-with-delta-scotland-study-suggests-12502277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-id=\"94\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:94,&quot;p&quot;:54,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:30}\"><strong>first studies of real-world hospitalisation data<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from Scotland and England suggest the\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/omicron-9888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-id=\"95\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:95,&quot;p&quot;:54,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:31}\"><strong>Omicron<\/strong><\/a> variant does cause milder illness than the Delta variant it is fast outpacing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/data-that-omicron-causes-milder-illness-than-delta-is-good-news-but-two-big-questions-remain\/ar-AAS4050?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\u00a0first studies of real-world hospitalisation data\u00a0from Scotland and England suggest the\u00a0Omicron variant does cause milder illness than the Delta variant it is&#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-33319","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\/33319","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=33319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33320,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319\/revisions\/33320"}],"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=33319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}