{"id":4763,"date":"2023-09-27T06:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2023-09-27T06:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:26:14","slug":"covid-is-back-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/09\/27\/covid-is-back-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Is Back. Here\u2019s What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-09-25\/covid-testing-variants-symptoms-what-to-know-now-that-covid-is-back?cmpid=BBD092723_prognosis&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=230927&amp;utm_campaign=prognosis\">Bloomberg<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Covid-19 public health emergency may feel like a distant memory, the virus isn\u2019t done with us. Hospitalizations have climbed back up and experts predict Covid cases will rise further as the weather turns colder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s not totally clear how we should prepare. When the darkest days of the pandemic passed, so did the near-constant briefings about when to stay home, how to get tested and which variants and vaccines are circulating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is the virus isn\u2019t as lethal as it was three years ago. And we\u2019re no longer facing the types of dire equipment shortages we once were, said\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/infdis\/people\/david-wohl-md\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Wohl<\/a>, a professor in the infectious diseases department at University of North Carolina School of Medicine. There\u2019s some level of community immunity, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-09-25\/covid-testing-variants-symptoms-what-to-know-now-that-covid-is-back?cmpid=BBD092723_prognosis&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=230927&amp;utm_campaign=prognosis\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg While the Covid-19 public health emergency may feel like a distant memory, the virus isn\u2019t done with us. Hospitalizations have climbed back up and experts predict Covid cases will rise further as the weather turns colder. But it\u2019s not totally clear how we should prepare. When the darkest days of the pandemic passed, so [&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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"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\/4763","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=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}