{"id":627,"date":"2023-08-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=627"},"modified":"2023-09-19T00:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T04:23:25","slug":"cdc-weighs-risk-of-ba-2-86-covid-19-lineage-as-3-more-nations-report-sequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/cdc-weighs-risk-of-ba-2-86-covid-19-lineage-as-3-more-nations-report-sequences\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC weighs risk of BA.2.86 COVID-19 lineage as 3\u00a0more nations report sequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today issued its initial risk assessment of the BA.2.86 SARS-CoV-2 lineage, which says tests and treatments will likely be effective and that updated vaccines will still be able to reduce severe disease and hospitalizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today issued its initial risk assessment of the BA.2.86 SARS-CoV-2 lineage, which says tests and treatments will likely be effective and that updated vaccines will still be able to reduce severe disease and hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/cdc-weighs-risk-of-ba-2-86-covid-19-lineage-as-3-more-nations-report-sequences\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CDC weighs risk of BA.2.86 COVID-19 lineage as 3\u00a0more nations report sequences<\/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":[181,101,288,18,183,184,182,14,209,208,210,50,51,47,52],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ba-2-86","tag-cdc","tag-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-covid-19","tag-denmark","tag-israel","tag-pirola","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-south-africa","tag-switzerland","tag-thailand","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-variants","tag-variants-under-monitoring","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}