{"id":5636,"date":"2024-01-02T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2024-01-02T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:31:54","slug":"new-coronavirus-variant-jn-1-is-spreading-fast-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/01\/02\/new-coronavirus-variant-jn-1-is-spreading-fast-heres-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"New coronavirus variant JN.1 is spreading fast. Here\u2019s what to know."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/12\/20\/new-covid-variant-jn1-symptoms\/\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rapid growth of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/coronavirus\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;subvariant JN.1 during the holiday season could fuel winter waves of illness in the United States and beyond, public health authorities warn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JN.1 caused nearly half of new U.S. coronavirus infections in the two weeks leading up to Christmas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/whats-new\/JN.1-update-2023-12-22.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimates<\/a>. The World Health Organization on Dec. 19\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/18122023_jn.1_ire_clean.pdf?sfvrsn=6103754a_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared JN.1 a variant of interest\u00a0<\/a>\u201cdue to its rapidly increasing spread,\u201d from 3 percent of global cases in early November to 27.1 percent a month later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The timing concerns experts because JN.1 appears to be spreading efficiently in a period when coronavirus usually surges as people travel for the holidays and stay indoors.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_weeklyhospitaladmissions_7dayeddiagnosed_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid hospitalizations<\/a>&nbsp;and coronavirus&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/biobot.io\/data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wastewater levels<\/a>&nbsp;are rising in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coronavirus is constantly evolving into forms that are more transmissible or more adept at infecting people who were vaccinated or previously infected. Those attributes help variants outcompete others in circulation and fuel waves of infection. But the scenario scientists have dreaded has yet to materialize in the last two years: a highly contagious variant far deadlier than the ones before it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/12\/20\/new-covid-variant-jn1-symptoms\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post The rapid growth of the&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;subvariant JN.1 during the holiday season could fuel winter waves of illness in the United States and beyond, public health authorities warn. JN.1 caused nearly half of new U.S. coronavirus infections in the two weeks leading up to Christmas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0estimates. 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