{"id":57461,"date":"2021-12-06T09:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=57461"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:17:08","slug":"what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-omicron-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-omicron-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Know&#8211;And Don&#8217;t Know&#8211;About the Omicron Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50063\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg\" alt=\"david-wohl-newsworthy-weekly-report-november-19\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/03\/david-wohl-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">David Wohl, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanksgiving merriment was tempered with news of the new omicron COVID-19 variant, which was first detected in South Africa and found quickly in more than 20 countries. This has raised concerns among scientists and healthcare providers who were hoping to bring the pandemic under control in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Infectious diseases specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/findadoc.unchealthcare.org\/details\/1830\/david-wohl-infectious_diseases-chapel_hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">David A. Wohl, MD<\/a>, explained what we know and don\u2019t know about the omicron variant\u2014and what people can do to stay safe.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from <a href=\"https:\/\/healthtalk.unchealthcare.org\/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-omicron-variant\/\">UNC Health Talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving merriment was tempered with news of the new omicron COVID-19 variant, which was first detected in South Africa and found quickly in more than 20 countries. This has raised concerns among scientists and healthcare providers who were hoping to bring the pandemic under control in the coming months. Infectious diseases specialist David A. Wohl, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-omicron-variant\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What We Know&#8211;And Don&#8217;t Know&#8211;About the Omicron Variant\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":50063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-57461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What We Know--And Don&#039;t Know--About the Omicron Variant | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-omicron-variant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What We Know--And Don&#039;t Know--About the Omicron Variant | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thanksgiving merriment was tempered with news of the new omicron COVID-19 variant, which was first detected in South Africa and found quickly in more than 20 countries. 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