{"id":4036,"date":"2023-12-22T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2023-12-23T08:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T13:29:13","slug":"new-covid-variant-jn-1-surges-to-44-of-cases-cdc-estimates-even-higher-in-new-york-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/new-covid-variant-jn-1-surges-to-44-of-cases-cdc-estimates-even-higher-in-new-york-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"New COVID variant JN.1 surges to 44% of cases, CDC estimates \u2014 even higher in New York, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new COVID-19 variant that scientists call JN.1 now makes up about 44.1% of COVID-19 cases across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Friday, marking another week of the fast-spreading variant\u2019s steep rise in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The increase is more than two times larger than the 21.3% that the CDC now estimates the strain made up of infections for the week ending Dec.&nbsp;9, after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new COVID-19 variant that scientists call JN.1 now makes up about 44.1% of COVID-19 cases across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Friday, marking another week of the fast-spreading variant\u2019s steep rise in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The increase is more than two times larger than the 21.3% that the CDC now estimates the strain made up of infections for the week ending Dec.&nbsp;9, after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/new-covid-variant-jn-1-surges-to-44-of-cases-cdc-estimates-even-higher-in-new-york-new-jersey\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New COVID variant JN.1 surges to 44% of cases, CDC estimates \u2014 even higher in New York, New Jersey<\/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":[181,288,18,651,652,274,182,14,51,47],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ba-2-86","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-covid-19","tag-jn-1","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-pirola","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-variants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","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=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4037,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}