{"id":3886,"date":"2023-12-15T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2023-12-16T20:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T01:23:41","slug":"covid-and-flu-surge-could-strain-hospitals-as-jn-1-variant-grows-cdc-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-and-flu-surge-could-strain-hospitals-as-jn-1-variant-grows-cdc-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID and flu surge could strain hospitals as JN.1 variant grows, CDC warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals and emergency rooms could be forced to ration care by the end of this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday, saying recent trends in COVID-19 and influenza are now on track to again strain America\u2019s health care system. The new COVID variant JN.1 is making up an increasing share of cases, the CDC\u2019s tracking shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 hospitalizations are rising quickly,\u201d the agency said in its weekly update. \u201cSince the summer, public health officials have been tracking a rise in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which is caused by COVID-19. Influenza activity is growing in most parts of the country. RSV activity remains high in many areas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals and emergency rooms could be forced to ration care by the end of this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday, saying recent trends in COVID-19 and influenza are now on track to again strain America\u2019s health care system. The new COVID variant JN.1 is making up an increasing share of cases, the CDC\u2019s tracking shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 hospitalizations are rising quickly,\u201d the agency said in its weekly update. \u201cSince the summer, public health officials have been tracking a rise in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which is caused by COVID-19. Influenza activity is growing in most parts of the country. RSV activity remains high in many areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-and-flu-surge-could-strain-hospitals-as-jn-1-variant-grows-cdc-warns\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID and flu surge could strain hospitals as JN.1 variant grows, CDC warns<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,26,18,78,23,77,651,722,721,80,49,14,51,47],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-children","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitalizations","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-jn-1","tag-mis-c","tag-multisystem-inflammatory-syndrome","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-variants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}