{"id":359,"date":"2022-09-23T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T00:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=359"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:46","slug":"new-covid-variants-may-evade-current-treatments-or-render-them-entirely-ineffective-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/09\/23\/new-covid-variants-may-evade-current-treatments-or-render-them-entirely-ineffective-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID variants may evade current treatments\u2014or render them entirely ineffective, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/well\/2022\/09\/22\/new-covid-variants-subvariants-may-evade-treatments-eliminate-bebtelovimab-paxlovid-omicron-monoclonal-antibodies-vaccine-immune-evasion\/\">Fortune<\/a> &#8211; Future COVID variants are expected to be more transmissible and perhaps better at evading the immune system. And they might even render treatments for patients like monoclonal antibodies \u201cless effective,\u201d the World Health Organization\u2019s pandemic lead said Thursday. Van Kerkhove said that the WHO is keeping an eye on Omicron variants BA.5\u2014currently dominant globally\u2014and its descendents, in addition to BA.2.75, also known as \u201cCentaurus,\u201d and its spawn, BA.2.75.2, among others. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.09.16.508299v2\">Related PREPRINT Paper <\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"dhwdJu Rh LFhNbkb wS WC\"><!-- dhwdJu Rh LFhNbkb wS WC --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune &#8211; Future COVID variants are expected to be more transmissible and perhaps better at evading the immune system. And they might even render treatments for patients like monoclonal antibodies \u201cless effective,\u201d the World Health Organization\u2019s pandemic lead said Thursday. Van Kerkhove said that the WHO is keeping an eye on Omicron variants BA.5\u2014currently dominant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-science-and-tech"],"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\/359","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}