{"id":2127,"date":"2023-01-10T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2023-01-10T09:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:54:05","slug":"vaccines-are-not-making-covid-strains-like-kraken-stronger-heres-how-the-four-shots-battle-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/10\/vaccines-are-not-making-covid-strains-like-kraken-stronger-heres-how-the-four-shots-battle-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccines are not making COVID strains like \u2018Kraken\u2019 stronger. Here\u2019s how the four shots battle variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/well\/2023\/01\/09\/covid-vaccines-not-making-kraken-xbb-1-5-variant-stronger\/\">Fortune<\/a>) Scientists are keen to shut down the idea that vaccines are making COVID strains \u201cstronger\u201d and that those who have had a booster are more susceptible to the disease. The World Health Organization has confirmed that XBB.1.5\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/well\/2023\/01\/05\/kraken-variant-omicron-covid-name-ryan-gregory-biology-professor\/\">dubbed \u201cKraken\u201d by biology professor Ryan Gregory<\/a>\u2014is the most transmissible strain yet. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday that the mutation is predicted to make up 28% of cases this week, making it the second most prevalent strain in the U.S., having been responsible for 18% last week.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"y Vt \"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fortune) Scientists are keen to shut down the idea that vaccines are making COVID strains \u201cstronger\u201d and that those who have had a booster are more susceptible to the disease. The World Health Organization has confirmed that XBB.1.5\u2014dubbed \u201cKraken\u201d by biology professor Ryan Gregory\u2014is the most transmissible strain yet. The Centers for Disease Control and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"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\/2127","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=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}