{"id":4787,"date":"2022-06-14T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:50:13","slug":"omicron-sub-variants-ba-4-and-ba-5-account-for-up-to-13-of-covid-variants-in-u-s-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=4787","title":{"rendered":"Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 account for up to 13% of COVID variants in U.S. &#8211; CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authors:  Mrinalika Roy  Reuters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron are estimated to make up nearly 5% and 8% of the coronavirus variants in the United States as of June 4, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two sublineages, which were added to the World Health Organization&#8217;s monitoring list in March and designated as variants of concern by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), were present in all U.S. regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, South African scientists found that the sublineages of the Omicron coronavirus variant can dodge antibodies from earlier infection well enough to trigger a new wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BA.4 made up 5.4% of the variants in the country for the week ending June 4, according to CDC estimates, while BA.5 made up 7.6% of the variants during the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seven-day moving average of U.S. COVID-19 cases stood at 98,010 as of June 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Mrinalika Roy Reuters The BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron are estimated to make up nearly 5% and 8% of the coronavirus variants in the United States as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,101,149,387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ba-4-covid","category-ba-5-covid","category-covid-19","category-epidemiology","category-omicron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}