{"id":3249,"date":"2023-01-03T06:59:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:46:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:46:23","slug":"new-covid-variant-xbb-1-5-rapidly-spreading-in-us-cdc-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3249","title":{"rendered":"<strong>New COVID variant XBB.1.5 rapidly spreading in US, CDC data shows<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Omicron variant is rapidly spreading in the US just in time to ring in 2023, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<br \/>\nThe strain, known XBB.1.5, accounts for about 41% of confirmed COVID cases across the nation,\u00a0the data shows.<br \/>\nThe mutation has gained considerable traction over the past week, the CDC noted \u2014 jumping from just 21% seven days ago.<br \/>\nIt was first reported in mid-November and has now overtaken the BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 variants, which\u00a0dominated cases in the fall.<br \/>\nXBB.1.5, a relative of the XBB strain, has mainly been reported in the northeastern section of the US, the health agency said.<br \/>\nOver 70% of COVID cases in New York through Maine are now XBB.1.5.<br \/>\nThe strengthening variant could pose a problem\u00a0amid the busy holiday travel\u00a0season, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/31\/new-covid-variant-xbb-1-5-rapidly-spreading-in-us-cdc\/\">Nypost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Omicron variant is rapidly spreading in the US just in time to ring in 2023, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The strain, known XBB.1.5, accounts for about 41% of confirmed COVID cases across the nation,\u00a0the data shows. The mutation has gained considerable traction over the past week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1664,1288,3394,1170,3396,3395,3269],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-cdc","tag-covid","tag-covid-variant","tag-new","tag-omicron-variant","tag-us-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-xbb-1-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7584,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/7584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}