{"id":30563,"date":"2021-04-04T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2021\/apr\/04\/how-new-zealands-covid-success-made-it-a-laboratory-for-the-world"},"modified":"2021-04-04T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T18:00:45","slug":"how-new-zealands-covid-success-made-it-a-laboratory-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30563","title":{"rendered":"How New Zealand&#8217;s Covid success made it a laboratory for the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small outbreaks and universal genomic sequencing provides unique insights into how coronavirus spreads<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jenene Crossan doesn\u2019t know where she got it. \u201cI caught it in London, have no idea where or from who, in March 2020,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve been sick ever since.\u201d Crossan used to worry about it \u2013 going back over possible infection scenarios, exchanging theories with a friend who got ill at the same time. These days, though, she\u2019s come to terms with not knowing. \u201cThe reality is it doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d she says. \u201cLondon was awash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like many of the vast majority of people unlucky enough to receive a positive Covid test result, the precise moment of infection remains a mystery. Some might narrow it down to a likely household member, friend or workmate who began showing symptoms too. Others trace it to a gathering \u2013 a wedding, funeral, or dinner party, where several attendees subsequently came down sick. But most are left wondering. As a New York Times headline put it last year: <em>\u201cHow Are Americans Catching the Virus? Increasingly, They Have No Idea\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2021\/apr\/04\/how-new-zealands-covid-success-made-it-a-laboratory-for-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small outbreaks and universal genomic sequencing provides unique insights into how coronavirus spreadsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJenene Crossan doesn\u2019t know where she got it. \u201cI caught it in London, have no idea where o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,914,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30564,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30563\/revisions\/30564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}