{"id":4612,"date":"2023-09-12T20:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T01:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2023-09-12T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T01:50:31","slug":"do-they-mask-are-they-eating-out-how-covid-experts-are-living-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/09\/12\/do-they-mask-are-they-eating-out-how-covid-experts-are-living-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Do they mask? Are they eating out? How covid experts are living now."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the past year, many Americans have stopped thinking about covid-19, ditched their masks, skipped the latest coronavirus boosters<\/a> and returned to living more normal lives. While cases of covid-related severe illness and hospitalization remain low, infection counts are spiking again, new variants are emerging, and flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)<\/a> loom as winter approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a lot of news about the coronavirus and other respiratory viruses these days, some of it confusing. A new coronavirus variant \u2014 BA.2.86<\/a> \u2014 is attracting the attention of infectious-disease specialists. But on the good news front, a key federal panel is meeting Sept. 12 to discuss the latest coronavirus booster, which should target the XBB variants<\/a> of the virus; officials expect the booster to become available by the end of the month. A new flu shot and new vaccines to protect against RSV are already out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaccination and awareness of virus transmission nationally and locally are important elements of the U.S. disease prevention \u201ctool kit,\u201d said Demetre Daskalakis, the acting director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. \u201cPay attention to the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] website<\/a> \u2026 pay close tabs to what\u2019s happening in the local health department [and] keep an eye on what they\u2019re saying,\u201d he advised. Also \u201cif you do get the infection, whether it\u2019s covid or flu, there are some treatments that you might qualify for.\u201d<\/p>\nVl dSXXctVeVVoTfGQ gwU QjTAN<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington Post In the past year, many Americans have stopped thinking about covid-19, ditched their masks, skipped the latest coronavirus boosters and returned to living more normal lives. While cases of covid-related severe illness and hospitalization remain low, infection counts are spiking again, new variants are emerging, and flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) loom as winter approaches. There\u2019s […]<\/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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"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\/4612","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=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}