{"id":930,"date":"2022-10-18T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=930"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:06","slug":"dr-fauci-these-2-new-fast-spreading-omicron-covid-subvariants-are-pretty-troublesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/10\/18\/dr-fauci-these-2-new-fast-spreading-omicron-covid-subvariants-are-pretty-troublesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Fauci: These 2 new fast-spreading omicron Covid subvariants are \u2018pretty troublesome\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/17\/dr-fauci-covid-omicron-subvariants-bq1-bq11-are-troublesome.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a> &#8211; As winter inches closer, Dr. Fauci is sounding the alarm about a pair of \u201cpretty troublesome\u201d Covid variants. The two descendants of omicron\u2019s BA.5 subvariant, called BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, both have dangerous \u201cqualities or characteristics that could evade some of the interventions we have,\u201d Fauci\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/covid-variant-bq-1-omicron-cdc-estimates\/\" target=\"_blank\">told CBS News<\/a>\u00a0on Friday.\u00a0The two sublineages are responsible for more than 10% of all current U.S. cases, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\">data<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 just one week after they weren\u2019t even significant enough to list.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; As winter inches closer, Dr. Fauci is sounding the alarm about a pair of \u201cpretty troublesome\u201d Covid variants. The two descendants of omicron\u2019s BA.5 subvariant, called BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, both have dangerous \u201cqualities or characteristics that could evade some of the interventions we have,\u201d Fauci\u00a0told CBS News\u00a0on Friday.\u00a0The two sublineages are responsible for [&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-930","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\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}