{"id":142040,"date":"2022-07-11T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T22:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-new-dominant-omicron-strain-in-the-u-s-is-driving-up-cases-and-reinfections"},"modified":"2022-07-11T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T22:24:23","slug":"a-new-dominant-omicron-strain-in-the-u-s-is-driving-up-cases-and-reinfections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-new-dominant-omicron-strain-in-the-u-s-is-driving-up-cases-and-reinfections","title":{"rendered":"A new dominant omicron strain in the U.S. is driving up cases \u2014 and reinfections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-dominant-omicron-strain-in-the-u-s-is-driving-up-cases-and-reinfections2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The BA.5 variant is now the most dominant strain of COVID-19 in the country, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>. And while it\u2019s hard to get an exact count \u2014 given how many people are taking rapid tests at home \u2014 there are indications that both reinfections and hospitalizations are increasing.<\/p>\n<p>For example: Some 31,000 people across the U.S. are <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#new-hospital-admissions\">currently hospitalized<\/a> with the virus, with admissions up 4.5% compared to a week ago. And data <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.health.ny.gov\/covid-19-reinfection-data#:~:text=To%20ensure%20each%20positive%20case, the%20positive%20result%20is%20confirmed\">from New York state<\/a> shows that reinfections started trending upwards again in late June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BA.5 variant is now the most dominant strain of COVID-19 in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And while it\u2019s hard to get an exact count \u2014 given how many people are taking rapid tests at home \u2014 there are indications that both reinfections and hospitalizations are increasing. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}