{"id":1934,"date":"2022-12-27T10:19:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2022-12-27T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:19:15","slug":"chinas-covid-19-surge-raises-odds-of-new-coronavirus-mutant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/27\/chinas-covid-19-surge-raises-odds-of-new-coronavirus-mutant\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s COVID-19 surge raises odds of new coronavirus mutant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-health-china-covid-306b688d84e31a9462f82d0ead1f4584\">AP<\/a>) Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world? Scientists don\u2019t know but worry that might happen. It could be similar to omicron variants circulating there now. It could be a combination of strains. Or something entirely different, they say. \u201cChina has a population that is very large and there\u2019s limited immunity. And that seems to be the setting in which we may see an explosion of a new variant,\u201d said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"P UOtF lPlgv b Swr Wii C \">P UOtF lPlgv b Swr Wii C <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world? Scientists don\u2019t know but worry that might happen. It could be similar to omicron variants circulating there now. It could be a combination of strains. Or something entirely different, they say. \u201cChina has a population that is very large and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-27-at-11.17.52.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}