{"id":10715,"date":"2025-11-05T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10715"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:42:13","slug":"covid-19-is-spreading-again-how-serious-is-it-and-what-are-the-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/05\/covid-19-is-spreading-again-how-serious-is-it-and-what-are-the-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 is spreading again \u2014 how serious is it and what are the symptoms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-03412-x\">Nature<\/a> <strong>Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.<\/strong>SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month \u2014 global cases increased by more than 19,000 last month compared with the previous month, according to data posted on the World Health Organization (WHO)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/data.who.int\/dashboards\/covid19\/cases\">COVID-19 dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the real number of infections is much higher than that, researchers say, because countries are less focused on collecting data on the infection now than they were during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSurveillance is happening but it\u2019s at a much lower level than it used to be. We don\u2019t have a complete picture of virus circulation of the variants that are out there,\u201d says Maria Van Kerkhove, interim director of the department of epidemic and pandemic management at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. \u201cI think there\u2019s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month \u2014 global cases increased by more than 19,000 last month compared with the previous month, according to data posted on the World Health Organization (WHO)&nbsp;COVID-19 dashboard. But the real number of infections is much [&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-10715","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\/10715","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=10715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10716,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions\/10716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}