{"id":50357,"date":"2022-07-13T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50357"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:27:07","slug":"ba-5-ups-concerns-about-spread-hospitalizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50357","title":{"rendered":"BA.5 ups concerns about spread, hospitalizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns are rising over a new omicron subvariant that is even more highly transmissible, called BA.5. The new subvariant has risen to be a majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States and is sparking concern about an increase in hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The White House held a press briefing with its top health experts on Tuesday to address the rise of the subvariant and urged people to get booster shots if they have not yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s new about it?\u00a0<\/strong>BA.5 causes concern because of its increased contagiousness and because of its greater ability to evade the protection from vaccines and prior infection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, though, the vaccines still provide crucial protection against severe disease and death, especially for people who have received their booster shots.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The trends so far:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hospitalizations are already increasing amid the rise of BA.5, to around 37,000, according to a New York Times tracker, though are still relatively low compared to other points in the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>Deaths and intensive care unit stays have stayed largely flat so far despite high levels of cases, which experts attribute to the protection of vaccines and treatments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns are rising over a new&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50358,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50357\/revisions\/50358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}