{"id":4411,"date":"2023-08-22T18:11:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T23:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2023-08-22T18:31:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T23:31:39","slug":"covid-boosters-are-still-weeks-away-as-cases-surge-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/22\/covid-boosters-are-still-weeks-away-as-cases-surge-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID boosters are still weeks away as cases surge in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/22\/covid-booster-variants-weeks\">Axios<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/health\/coronavirus\">&nbsp;COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations<\/a>&nbsp;creep up during a summer wave of heightened virus activity, updated vaccines are still likely weeks away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans have largely tuned out COVID, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/17\/covid-19-cases-2023-uptick-where-why\">the latest COVID uptick<\/a>\u00a0is a reminder that the virus continues to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/04\/covid-uptick-cases-hospitalization-future\">circulate and mutate<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 though the threat is far below pandemic-era levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials face a challenge convincing a pandemic-fatigued public to get an updated COVID shot, as vaccine uptake has declined with each successive booster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COVID\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_select_00\" target=\"_blank\">hospitalizations<\/a>\u00a0have increased by two-thirds nationwide since June to about 10,000, which is far less than the 40,000-plus recorded the same time last year. Deaths have\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00\" target=\"_blank\">continued to decline<\/a>, down about 90% from the peak of last winter&#8217;s wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/08\/22\/covid-booster-variants-weeks\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios As&nbsp;COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations&nbsp;creep up during a summer wave of heightened virus activity, updated vaccines are still likely weeks away. Americans have largely tuned out COVID, but\u00a0the latest COVID uptick\u00a0is a reminder that the virus continues to\u00a0circulate and mutate\u00a0\u2014 though the threat is far below pandemic-era levels. Health officials face a challenge convincing a [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"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\/4411","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=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}