{"id":2099,"date":"2023-01-09T09:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T15:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:14:56","slug":"people-who-havent-had-covid-will-likely-catch-xbb-1-5-and-many-will-get-reinfected-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/09\/people-who-havent-had-covid-will-likely-catch-xbb-1-5-and-many-will-get-reinfected-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"People who haven&#8217;t had COVID will likely catch XBB.1.5 \u2013 and many will get reinfected, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2023\/01\/06\/covid-update-xbb-variant-symptoms-reinfection\/10995204002\/\">USA Today<\/a>) Variant XBB.1.5 is very contagious, meaning everyone is at risk even if you&#8217;ve already been infected. As the U.S. enters year 3 of the pandemic, here&#8217;s an update on the state of COVID.  The<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2023\/01\/04\/new-covid-variant-xbb\/10984383002\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"&nbsp;newest COVID-19 variant, opens in a new window\">&nbsp;newest COVID-19 variant<\/a>&nbsp;is so contagious that even people who&#8217;ve avoided&nbsp;it so far are getting infected and the roughly 80% of Americans who&#8217;ve already been infected are likely to catch it again, experts say.&nbsp; Essentially, everyone in the country is at risk for infection now, even if they&#8217;re super careful, up to date on vaccines, or have caught it before, said Paula Cannon, a virologist at the University of Southern California.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(USA Today) Variant XBB.1.5 is very contagious, meaning everyone is at risk even if you&#8217;ve already been infected. As the U.S. enters year 3 of the pandemic, here&#8217;s an update on the state of COVID. The&nbsp;newest COVID-19 variant&nbsp;is so contagious that even people who&#8217;ve avoided&nbsp;it so far are getting infected and the roughly 80% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2101,"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-2099","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\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-09-at-10.42.49.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","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=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11336,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/11336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}