{"id":3828,"date":"2021-12-23T09:16:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T07:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T07:24:25","slug":"south-african-epidemiologist-discusses-decrease-in-omicron-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/articles\/south-african-epidemiologist-discusses-decrease-in-omicron-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"South African epidemiologist discusses decrease in Omicron cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-margin-bottom:30px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\" style=\"border:1px solid #dedede;\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" title=\"staff-pmutevedzi\" src=\"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wordpress21\/wp-content\/uploads\/staff-pmutevedzi-400x400.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-785\"\/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 custom-list\"><p>Dr Portia Mutevedzi, Senior Epidemiologist at Wits VIDA, spoke to CNN&#8217;s The Lead about the decrease in Omicron cases.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><em>Watch the video here:<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2021\/12\/23\/lead-portia-mutevedz.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2021\/12\/23\/lead-portia-mutevedz.cnn<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Credit: CNN The Lead<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,82],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-blog","tag-covid-19","tag-vaccine-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}