{"id":5117,"date":"2023-11-01T07:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2023-11-01T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:12:06","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-jn-1-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/01\/what-to-know-about-the-jn-1-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Know About the JN.1 Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/107088\">MedPageToday<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the BA.2.86 or &#8220;Pirola&#8221; variant of SARS-CoV-2 never took off in the U.S., some researchers are now eyeing its descendant, JN.1, which may be more immune-evasive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JN.1 has yet to appear on the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\">CDC&#8217;s variant proportions tracker<\/a>, but it has started cropping up in samples in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RajlabN\/status\/1716840509723869403\" target=\"_blank\">France, the U.K., and Portugal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CDC\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/106013\" target=\"_blank\">warned in Augusto<\/a>\u00a0that since BA.2.86 had more than 30 new mutations, it could have a growth advantage over other variants. That hasn&#8217;t yet materialized, but eyes are on JN.1 because it also has a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yunlong_cao\/status\/1714694253530804588?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">mutation in L455S<\/a>, which has been problematic for monoclonal antibodies, researchers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/107088\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"l zIER q R hYa HIjl hHLlNX D\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday While the BA.2.86 or &#8220;Pirola&#8221; variant of SARS-CoV-2 never took off in the U.S., some researchers are now eyeing its descendant, JN.1, which may be more immune-evasive. JN.1 has yet to appear on the\u00a0CDC&#8217;s variant proportions tracker, but it has started cropping up in samples in\u00a0France, the U.K., and Portugal. The CDC\u00a0warned in Augusto\u00a0that [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-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\/5117","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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}