{"id":799,"date":"2023-08-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=799"},"modified":"2023-11-29T02:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T07:35:25","slug":"this-latest-covid-variant-could-be-the-best-yet-at-evading-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/this-latest-covid-variant-could-be-the-best-yet-at-evading-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"This latest covid variant could be the best yet at evading immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A highly mutated form of the coronavirus that threatens to be the most adept yet at slipping past the body\u2019s immune defenses is capturing the attention of virologists and health officials.<\/p>\n<p>While only about a dozen cases of the new BA.2.86 variant have been reported worldwide \u2014 including three in the United States \u2014 experts say this variant requires intense monitoring and vigilance that many of its predecessors did not. That\u2019s because it has even greater potential to escape the antibodies that protect people from getting sick, even if you\u2019ve recently been infected or vaccinated.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>&nbsp;Image description: Electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles. Photo by: NIAID. Image is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 DEED | Attribution 2.0 Generic license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0;height: 31px;width: 88px\" src=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/by.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly mutated form of the coronavirus that threatens to be the most adept yet at slipping past the body\u2019s immune defenses is capturing the attention of virologists and health officials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/this-latest-covid-variant-could-be-the-best-yet-at-evading-immunity\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This latest covid variant could be the best yet at evading immunity<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[181,18,55,182,14,47,52],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ba-2-86","tag-covid-19","tag-omicron","tag-pirola","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-variants","tag-variants-under-monitoring","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}