{"id":6513,"date":"2024-05-01T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6513"},"modified":"2024-05-01T07:37:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:37:28","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-flirt-variants-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/01\/what-to-know-about-the-flirt-variants-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Know About the \u2018FLiRT\u2019 Variants of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6972143\/covid-19-flirt-variants-kp-2\/\">Time<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVID-19 lull in the U.S. may soon come to an end, as a new family of SARS-CoV-2 variants\u2014nicknamed \u201cFLiRT\u201d variants\u2014begins to spread nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These variants are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6197597\/who-names-covid-19-variants-pi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">distant Omicron relatives<\/a>\u00a0that spun out from JN.1, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6548748\/jn1-covid-variant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">variant behind the surge in cases this past winter<\/a>. They\u2019ve been dubbed \u201cFLiRT\u201d variants based on the technical names for their mutations, one of which includes the letters \u201cF\u201d and \u201cL,\u201d and another of which includes the letters \u201cR\u201d and \u201cT.\u201d Within the FLiRT family, one variant in particular has risen to prominence: KP.2, which accounted for about 25% of new sequenced cases during the two weeks ending Apr. 27,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to data<\/a>\u00a0from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Other FLiRT variants, including KP.1.1, have not become as widespread in the U.S. yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6972143\/covid-19-flirt-variants-kp-2\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time The COVID-19 lull in the U.S. may soon come to an end, as a new family of SARS-CoV-2 variants\u2014nicknamed \u201cFLiRT\u201d variants\u2014begins to spread nationwide. These variants are\u00a0distant Omicron relatives\u00a0that spun out from JN.1, the\u00a0variant behind the surge in cases this past winter. They\u2019ve been dubbed \u201cFLiRT\u201d variants based on the technical names for their [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"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\/6513","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=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6514,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions\/6514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}