{"id":519953,"date":"2021-12-10T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=519953"},"modified":"2021-12-10T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:30:39","slug":"south-african-scientists-share-positive-news-that-omicron-isnt-causing-spike-in-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=519953","title":{"rendered":"South African Scientists Share &#8220;Positive&#8221; News That Omicron Isn&#8217;t Causing Spike In Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>&#8230;while the\u00a0rest of the world panics.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists in South Africa continue to share the \u201cpositive\u201d news that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 isn\u2019t causing a spike in deaths, even as other countries like the UK continue to panic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHospital data show that Covid-19 admissions are now rising sharply in more than half of South Africa\u2019s nine provinces, but <strong>deaths are not rising as dramatically and indicators such as the median length of hospital stay are reassuring.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary data does suggest that while there is increasing rate of hospitalisation\u2026\u00a0<strong>it looks like it is purely because of the numbers rather than as a result of any severity of the variant itself, this Omicron,<\/strong>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/12\/10\/south-african-scientists-share-positive-news-that-omicron-isnt-causing-spike-in-deaths\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/12\/10\/south-african-scientists-share-positive-news-that-omicron-isnt-causing-spike-in-deaths\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;while the\u00a0rest of the world panics. Scientists in South Africa continue to share the \u201cpositive\u201d news that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 isn\u2019t causing a spike in deaths, even as other countries like the UK continue to panic. \u201cHospital data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=519953\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}