{"id":5382,"date":"2023-11-29T07:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2023-11-29T07:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:59:13","slug":"what-to-know-about-rapidly-spreading-pirola-covid-variant-ba-2-86-and-if-vaccines-offer-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/29\/what-to-know-about-rapidly-spreading-pirola-covid-variant-ba-2-86-and-if-vaccines-offer-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Know About Rapidly Spreading \u2018Pirola\u2019 Covid Variant BA.2.86\u2014And If Vaccines Offer Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ariannajohnson\/2023\/11\/28\/what-to-know-about-rapidly-spreading-pirola-covid-variant-ba286-and-if-vaccines-offer-protection\/?sh=176e8c5c1978\">Forbes<\/a> Pirola, or BA.2.86, is the third most prevalent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/coronavirus\/?sh=43f290e720dd\">Covid<\/a>\u00a0strain in the U.S., and although there may be concerns the new monovalent vaccines\u2014which protect against the XBB lineage that Pirola isn\u2019t a part of\u2014don\u2019t offer protection against Pirola and its subvariants, drugmakers and the CDC are sure the vaccines offer defense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pirola made up 8.8% of cases as of November 25, almost triple the number of cases the variant made up during the previous two-week period ending on November 11, when Pirola wasn\u2019t even one of the top five most prevalent variants, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data<\/a>&nbsp;from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s circulating the most in the Northeast, where it\u2019s the second most common variant in the region (13%) after HV.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pirola joined four other variants as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/21112023_ba.2.86_ire.pdf?sfvrsn=8876def1_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">variants of interest<\/a>\u201d by the World Health Organization on Monday, a step up from its \u201cvariant under monitoring\u201d label in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ariannajohnson\/2023\/11\/28\/what-to-know-about-rapidly-spreading-pirola-covid-variant-ba286-and-if-vaccines-offer-protection\/?sh=176e8c5c1978\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"YF  PtiFZqJr cwxUYsvpcZH i\">YF  PtiFZqJr cwxUYsvpcZH i<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes Pirola, or BA.2.86, is the third most prevalent\u00a0Covid\u00a0strain in the U.S., and although there may be concerns the new monovalent vaccines\u2014which protect against the XBB lineage that Pirola isn\u2019t a part of\u2014don\u2019t offer protection against Pirola and its subvariants, drugmakers and the CDC are sure the vaccines offer defense. 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