{"id":147313,"date":"2022-09-30T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T04:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/preparing-for-the-bf-7-covid-19-variant-and-flu-season"},"modified":"2022-09-30T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T04:22:55","slug":"preparing-for-the-bf-7-covid-19-variant-and-flu-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/preparing-for-the-bf-7-covid-19-variant-and-flu-season","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the BF-7 COVID-19 variant and flu season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/preparing-for-the-bf-7-covid-19-variant-and-flu-season2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH (KDKA) \u2014 Move over, BA-4 and BA-5, there\u2019s a new COVID-19 variant that\u2019s spreading even as the push is on for the current round of boosters.<\/p>\n<p>The word from the experts is to get the booster and don\u2019t let your guard down. KDKA\u2019s John Shumway spoke with CBS News medical expert Dr. David Agus \u2014 and some of what he had to say is a bit disconcerting.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Omicron, BA-4, BA-5, and now comes BF-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH (KDKA) \u2014 Move over, BA-4 and BA-5, there\u2019s a new COVID-19 variant that\u2019s spreading even as the push is on for the current round of boosters. The word from the experts is to get the booster and don\u2019t let your guard down. KDKA\u2019s John Shumway spoke with CBS News medical expert Dr. David Agus [\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-147313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147313","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=147313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}