{"id":154729,"date":"2023-01-06T20:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T02:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-xbb-1-5-variant-is-taking-over-on-the-east-coast-will-it-happen-in-california-too"},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T02:28:02","slug":"the-xbb-1-5-variant-is-taking-over-on-the-east-coast-will-it-happen-in-california-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/the-xbb-1-5-variant-is-taking-over-on-the-east-coast-will-it-happen-in-california-too","title":{"rendered":"The XBB.1.5 variant is taking over on the East Coast. Will it happen in California too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-xbb-1-5-variant-is-taking-over-on-the-east-coast-will-it-happen-in-california-too2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may have come home with it after a recent trip to New England. Or you may have gotten it from that friend or family member who flew in from New York over the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The newest Omicron subvariant of concern is XBB.1.5, and it has arrived in Southern California. This version of the coronavirus is more contagious and more resistant to existing immunity than any of its predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just the latest and greatest and most infectious variant,\u201d said <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/faculty-search\/paula-cannon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Cannon<\/a>, a virologist at USC. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to me that this virus keeps finding one more trick to make itself even more infectious, even more transmissible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have come home with it after a recent trip to New England. Or you may have gotten it from that friend or family member who flew in from New York over the holidays. The newest Omicron subvariant of concern is XBB.1.5, and it has arrived in Southern California. This version of the coronavirus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154729","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=154729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}