{"id":33555,"date":"2022-01-07T07:28:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T07:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=33555"},"modified":"2022-01-07T07:28:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T07:28:03","slug":"experts-say-omicron-variant-is-best-thing-for-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/experts-say-omicron-variant-is-best-thing-for-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts say Omicron variant is &#8216;best thing&#8217; for pandemic"},"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><div class=\"paddle previous loaded\" data-aop=\"paddles_prev\" data-id=\"45\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:45,&quot;p&quot;:44,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;previous&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:14,&quot;o&quot;:1}\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"paddle next loaded\" data-aop=\"paddles_next\" data-id=\"46\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:46,&quot;p&quot;:44,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;next&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:14,&quot;o&quot;:2}\">\n<div class=\"headline \">\n<div>\n<div class=\"truncate\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"articlecontent allowvig loaded\" data-id=\"47\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:47,&quot;p&quot;:44,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;article&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:6,&quot;o&quot;:3}\" data-nativead-placements=\"article_aside:3;singlecard1:1;singlecard2:1;singlecard3:1;singlecard4:1;singlecard5:1;singlecard6:1;singlecard7:1;singlecard8:1;singlecard9:1;singlecard10:1;singlecard11:1;\">\n<section class=\"flexarticle\" data-id=\"48\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:48,&quot;p&quot;:47,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;flexarticle&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:6,&quot;o&quot;:1}\">\n<section class=\"articlebody   \" data-id=\"49\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:49,&quot;p&quot;:48,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;articlebody&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:6,&quot;o&quot;:1}\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" \/><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 class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/omicron-variant\/index.html\" 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;:30}\">Omicron<\/a> &#8216;should be welcomed&#8217; because the ultra-infectious variant could consign the days of Britain recording thousands of Covid deaths each day to history, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/medical\/experts-say-omicron-variant-is-best-thing-for-pandemic\/ar-AASv8lR?ocid=msedgntp\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\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 &#8216;should be welcomed&#8217; because the ultra-infectious variant could consign the days of Britain recording thousands of Covid deaths each day to&#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-33555","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\/33555","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=33555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33556,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33555\/revisions\/33556"}],"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=33555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}