{"id":7053,"date":"2024-07-17T08:20:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2024-07-17T08:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:20:41","slug":"heat-driving-people-indoors-transmissible-variants-causing-people-to-get-sick-this-summer-virologist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/17\/heat-driving-people-indoors-transmissible-variants-causing-people-to-get-sick-this-summer-virologist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat driving people indoors, transmissible variants causing people to get sick this summer, virologist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/local\/2024\/07\/heat-driving-people-indoors-transmissible-variants-causing-people-to-get-sick-this-summer-virologist-says\/\">WTOP<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extreme heat that\u2019s been making its way across the D.C. region in the last few weeks is causing many people to remain indoors, which one virus expert said is a factor facilitating the spread of respiratory viruses like COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Pekosz, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said respiratory infections are starting to increase in other parts of the country, largely driven by an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#datatracker-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increasing number of COVID-19 cases.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the D.C. region isn\u2019t currently experiencing similar trends, he said, \u201csome of the early indicators, such as case positivity and some emergency room visits for COVID, are starting to tick up, so I\u2019m guessing we\u2019re probably also expecting a small surge coming here, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/The extreme heat that\u2019s been making its way across the D.C. region in the last few weeks is causing many people to remain indoors, which one virus expert said is a factor facilitating the spread of respiratory viruses like COVID-19.  Andrew Pekosz, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said respiratory infections are starting to increase in other parts of the country, largely driven by an increasing number of COVID-19 cases.  While the D.C. region isn\u2019t currently experiencing similar trends, he said, \u201csome of the early indicators, such as case positivity and some emergency room visits for COVID, are starting to tick up, so I\u2019m guessing we\u2019re probably also expecting a small surge coming here, too.\u201d\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTOP The extreme heat that\u2019s been making its way across the D.C. region in the last few weeks is causing many people to remain indoors, which one virus expert said is a factor facilitating the spread of respiratory viruses like COVID-19. Andrew Pekosz, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said [&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-7053","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\/7053","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=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}