{"id":28301,"date":"2020-11-26T08:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=28301"},"modified":"2020-11-26T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:15:33","slug":"coronavirus-mutation-may-have-made-it-more-infectious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=28301","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Mutation May Have Made it More Infectious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A mutation that developed in the new coronavirus early in the pandemic may have made it more infectious, a number of new findings suggest.<\/p>\n<p>First detected in eastern China in January, the mutation, called 614G, took over much of the world within months, displacing other variants, <em>The New York Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been ongoing debate about whether the mutation made the coronavirus more infectious.<\/p>\n<p>But a growing body of research suggests that this variant does infect people more easily than the original variant that emerged in Wuhan, China, the<em> Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2020 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=249332\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A mutation that developed in the new coronavirus early in the pandemic may have made it more infectious, a number of new findings suggest. First detected in eastern China in January, the mutation, called 614G, took over much of the world within months, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1601354401_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}