{"id":10038,"date":"2025-08-13T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:37:57","slug":"with-a-new-covid-variant-on-the-rise-which-us-states-have-the-most-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/13\/with-a-new-covid-variant-on-the-rise-which-us-states-have-the-most-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"With a new COVID variant on the rise, which US states have the most cases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/08\/11\/covid-variants-testing-deaths-map-august-2025\/85616250007\/\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some states are being hit harder than others this summer as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/08\/05\/new-covid-variant-stratus-xfg-symptoms-what-to-know\/85532518007\/\">new COVID-19 strain (XGF)<\/a>&nbsp;continues to spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some regions of the U.S. are still experiencing higher rates of positive COVID tests than others, though reporting has slowed down enough nationwide that the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#datatracker-home\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Centers for Disease Control, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control<\/a>&nbsp;(CDC) has begun allowing more time to pass between certain types of updates, such as those on variant prevalence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Testing, cases, hospitalizations and deaths are still being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#datatracker-home\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"recorded on a weekly basis, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recorded on a weekly basis<\/a>, however, even amid the chaos of ever-changing strains, recommendations and cuts to vaccine development funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to know about the latest data.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"gujpSddx ystJ STz zkSI  \">gujpSddx ystJ STz zkSI  <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today Some states are being hit harder than others this summer as a&nbsp;new COVID-19 strain (XGF)&nbsp;continues to spread. Some regions of the U.S. are still experiencing higher rates of positive COVID tests than others, though reporting has slowed down enough nationwide that the&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control&nbsp;(CDC) has begun allowing more time to pass between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10039,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}