{"id":33412,"date":"2021-12-30T07:42:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T07:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=33412"},"modified":"2021-12-30T07:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T07:42:41","slug":"death-rates-in-south-africas-omicron-covid-wave-were-just-a-quarter-of-levels-seen-during-previous-surges-as-scientists-say-ultra-infectious-variant-may-usher-in-endemic-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/30\/death-rates-in-south-africas-omicron-covid-wave-were-just-a-quarter-of-levels-seen-during-previous-surges-as-scientists-say-ultra-infectious-variant-may-usher-in-endemic-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Death rates in South Africa&#8217;s Omicron Covid wave were just a QUARTER of levels seen during previous surges as scientists say ultra-infectious variant may &#8216;usher in endemic phase&#8217;"},"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-32893\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Covid death rates in\u00a0<a id=\"mol-9115c370-68d8-11ec-a61c-936e6026148d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/south_africa\/index.html\">South Africa<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a id=\"mol-9113eeb0-68d8-11ec-a61c-936e6026148d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/omicron-variant\/index.html\">Omicron<\/a>\u00a0wave were just a quarter of levels seen during previous surges, real-world data suggests.<\/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>Covid death rates in\u00a0South Africa&#8216;s\u00a0Omicron\u00a0wave were just a quarter of levels seen during previous surges, real-world data suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33412","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\/hospital-south-africa.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33412","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=33412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33413,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33412\/revisions\/33413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}