{"id":9959,"date":"2025-07-23T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:16:42","slug":"summer-covid-cases-are-rising-across-the-u-s-is-it-time-for-a-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/23\/summer-covid-cases-are-rising-across-the-u-s-is-it-time-for-a-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Covid cases are rising across the U.S. \u2014 Is it time for a vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/covid-vaccine-nb181-us-cases-rise-summer-razor-blade-throat-rcna220223\">NBC<\/a> The uptick in cases, caused by a variant of the virus nicknamed &#8220;razor blade throat,&#8221; comes as many Americans have likely gone a year or longer without a Covid shot. As Covid cases begin to rise this summer, many may be wondering: What are my risks, and is it time to get another vaccine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"anchor-31f5cd\">As of July 15, Covid cases were growing or likely growing in 27 states including Texas, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cfa-modeling-and-forecasting\/rt-estimates\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"anchor-65e845\">Rates of positive Covid tests&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#maps_positivity-2-week\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"have also been increasing, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have also been increasing<\/a>&nbsp;in recent weeks, the CDC says, specifically in the southern region of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"N.B.1.8.1, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">N.B.1.8.1<\/a>&nbsp;is the current dominant variant in the United States, accounting for 43% of all new Covid cases, according to the CDC. It\u2019s an offshoot of the XVD.1.5.1 strain, a descendant of the omicron variant. N.B.1.8.1 was responsible for a surge in hospitalizations in China earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC The uptick in cases, caused by a variant of the virus nicknamed &#8220;razor blade throat,&#8221; comes as many Americans have likely gone a year or longer without a Covid shot. As Covid cases begin to rise this summer, many may be wondering: What are my risks, and is it time to get another vaccine? [&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":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-featured-headlines"],"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\/9959","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=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9960,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions\/9960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}