{"id":163240,"date":"2023-05-02T17:26:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T22:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-new-covid-variant-called-arcturus-is-linked-to-pink-eye-heres-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2023-05-02T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T22:26:22","slug":"a-new-covid-variant-called-arcturus-is-linked-to-pink-eye-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/a-new-covid-variant-called-arcturus-is-linked-to-pink-eye-heres-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"A new COVID variant called Arcturus is linked to pink eye. Here\u2019s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-covid-variant-called-arcturus-is-linked-to-pink-eye-heres-what-you-need-to-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 1 in 10 cases of COVID-19 nationwide is caused by an emerging coronavirus strain, XBB.1.16.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https:\/\/www.who.int\/activities\/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants target=_blank rel=noopener data-t-l=:b|e|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>World Health Organization<\/a> has elevated this strain of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2021\/11\/29\/omicron-coronavirus-variant-how-to-pronounce\/8791980002\/\" target=_blank rel=noopener data-t-l=:b|e|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>omicron<\/a> to one of two \u201ccirculating variants of interest.\u201d The variant, which has been called Arcturus, is responsible for a growing share of coronavirus cases in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As of April 22, it caused 9.6% of COVID-19 infections nationwide, according to the <a href=https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions target=_blank rel=noopener data-t-l=:b|e|k|u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1 in 10 cases of COVID-19 nationwide is caused by an emerging coronavirus strain, XBB.1.16. The World Health Organization has elevated this strain of omicron to one of two \u201ccirculating variants of interest.\u201d The variant, which has been called Arcturus, is responsible for a growing share of coronavirus cases in the United States. As [\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-163240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163240","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=163240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}