{"id":1897,"date":"2022-12-20T13:33:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2022-12-20T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:34:47","slug":"chinas-covid-19-outbreak-has-us-worried-about-new-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/20\/chinas-covid-19-outbreak-has-us-worried-about-new-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Covid-19 Outbreak Has US Worried About New Variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-19\/us-worries-china-s-covid-outbreak-could-lead-to-virus-mutations?cmpid=BBD122022_prognosis&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=221220&amp;utm_campaign=prognosis\">Bloomberg<\/a>) The US is concerned China\u2019s runaway Covid-19 outbreak might spawn new mutations of the virus, as the world\u2019s most populous country continues to grapple with the impact of loosening \u201cCovid Zero\u201d protocols that had kept the pandemic at bay. \u201cWhen it comes to the current outbreak in China, we want to see this addressed,\u201d State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a briefing on Monday. \u201cWe know that anytime the virus is spreading in the wild that it has the potential to mutate and to pose a threat to people everywhere.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The US is concerned China\u2019s runaway Covid-19 outbreak might spawn new mutations of the virus, as the world\u2019s most populous country continues to grapple with the impact of loosening \u201cCovid Zero\u201d protocols that had kept the pandemic at bay. \u201cWhen it comes to the current outbreak in China, we want to see this addressed,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-20-at-14.34.13.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","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=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}