{"id":43414,"date":"2021-12-28T13:04:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43414"},"modified":"2021-12-28T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T21:04:30","slug":"cdc-significantly-cuts-estimate-of-omicrons-prevalence-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43414","title":{"rendered":"CDC significantly cuts estimate of omicron&#8217;s prevalence in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday significantly revised downward the estimate of the percentage of new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. caused by the omicron variant of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>According to agency data, omicron accounted for about 59 percent of all U.S. infections as of Dec. 25.\u00a0Previously, the CDC said the omicron variant\u00a0comprised 73 percent of all cases\u00a0for the week ending Dec. 18. But that number has now been revised to 22.5 percent of all cases.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43415,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43414\/revisions\/43415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}