{"id":50530,"date":"2022-07-17T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50530"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T18:29:00","slug":"ba-5-spurs-new-calls-to-fund-next-generation-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50530","title":{"rendered":"BA.5 spurs new calls to fund next-generation COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of the BA.5 variant is spurring new calls for funding for an Operation Warp Speed 2.0 to accelerate development of next-generation COVID-19 vaccines that can better target new variants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The BA.5 subvariant of omicron that now makes up\u00a0the majority of\u00a0U.S. COVID-19 cases is sparking concern because it has a greater ability to evade the protection of current vaccines\u00a0than past strains of the virus did.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer and Moderna are working on updated vaccines that target BA.5 that could be ready this fall, but experts say that by the time they are ready, a new variant very well could have taken hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of the BA.5 variant&#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-50530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50530","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=50530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50531,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50530\/revisions\/50531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}