{"id":222852,"date":"2022-03-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/deltacron-could-exist-after-all"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:00:00","slug":"deltacron-could-exist-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/deltacron-could-exist-after-all","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deltacron&#8217; could exist after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did a COVID test sample from France really get identified as &#8220;Deltacron&#8221;?. Deposit Photos In mid-February, a team at the Institut Pasteur in France uploaded a SARS-CoV-2 genome with a strange family tree to a global epidemiology database. As one scientist explained on a forum used to identify new variants , the virus, which had infected an older man in northern France, appeared to share its &#8220;body&#8221; with Delta, but had borrowed the genetic information for most of its spike proteins from Omicron. Based on a standard naming convention, the new COVID type, if it sticks around, will likely be dubbed &#8220;XD.&#8221; The public has been calling it &#8220;Deltacron.&#8221; A month later, a second team posted their own preliminary evidence that three similar cases had appeared in the US during the height of the Omicron surge, between November 2021 and February 2022. SARS-CoV-2 has produced hybrids before , mostly involving the Alpha variant. But none of those ended up driving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did a COVID test sample from France really get identified as &#8220;Deltacron&#8221;?. Deposit PhotosBut it&#8217;s not any scarier than the original variants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,348],"tags":[357,59,60,185],"class_list":["post-222852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-science","tag-flu","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}