{"id":928,"date":"2022-10-18T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=928"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:06","slug":"could-these-new-variants-drive-a-dreaded-winter-covid-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/18\/could-these-new-variants-drive-a-dreaded-winter-covid-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Could These New Variants Drive a Dreaded Winter COVID Surge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/101261?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2022-10-17&amp;eun=g1983803d0r\" target=\"_blank\">MedPageToday<\/a> &#8211; Public health experts have warned of a new winter wave of COVID-19, and now the latest data from the CDC showed several fast-spreading variants that may drive such a trend. The Omicron BA.5 variant&#8217;s dominance among sequenced cases in the U.S. has been declining since late August. Though it remained\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\">responsible for nearly 68% of cases<\/a>\u00a0as of Oct. 15, that percentage was down from about 75% reported for the week ending on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"tPvdicpexZE \"><!-- tPvdicpexZE  --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday &#8211; Public health experts have warned of a new winter wave of COVID-19, and now the latest data from the CDC showed several fast-spreading variants that may drive such a trend. The Omicron BA.5 variant&#8217;s dominance among sequenced cases in the U.S. has been declining since late August. Though it remained\u00a0responsible for nearly 68% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"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\/928","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}