{"id":1368958,"date":"2022-03-10T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1368958"},"modified":"2022-03-10T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:10:58","slug":"cdc-director-says-covid-to-become-seasonal-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-says-covid-to-become-seasonal-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Director Says COVID to Become \u201cSeasonal Virus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcdc-director-says-covid-to-become-seasonal-virus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1368958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"title\">Consumer Report: Government program covers funeral expenses of COVID related deaths<\/h4>\n<p>FOX consumer reporter Steve Noviello discusses a government program that will pay for the funeral of a person who has died of COVID or a COVID related illness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\"><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8211; <\/span>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director\u00a0Dr. Rochelle Walensky\u00a0said she anticipates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/shows\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/a>will become a seasonal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">virus<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do anticipate that this is probably going to be a seasonal virus,&#8221;\u00a0she told NBC News on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walensky also told the network that Americans should anticipate they will need to wear face masks again and hope that they are not always necessary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agency moved to\u00a0loosen\u00a0mask restrictions for much of the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0at the end of last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We may want to be more vigilant during some seasons,&#8221; she noted. &#8220;Maybe during respiratory season, if things ramped up, we would want to put on our masks again to protect both from flu and from COVID and from all other respiratory diseases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-width-image\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.foxtv.com\/static.fox5ny.com\/www.fox5ny.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/932\/524\/1400aaeb-Rapid-at-home-COVID-test-1.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"1400aaeb-Rapid at home COVID test\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<div class=\"info\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\">\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\"><span data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Image of an iHealth at home Covid-19 rapid antigen test supplied for free by the U.S. Postal Service. Photographer: Angus Mordant\/ Bloomberg\/Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.jhu.edu\/region\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data<\/a>\u00a0from Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. reported 67,516 new coronavirus cases and 1,686 new deaths.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers are markedly down from January&#8217;s surge of the omicron variant \u2013 although CDC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-total\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">data<\/a>\u00a0show the variant still makes up 99.9% of new cases.<\/p>\n<p>Walensky said it remained unclear whether people will need additional COVID-19\u00a0booster\u00a0shots over the next year.<\/p>\n<p>In a reversal of the\u00a0U.N.\u00a0agency&#8217;s previous stance, an expert group convened by the\u00a0World Health Organization (WHO)\u00a0said\u00a0Tuesday that it &#8220;strongly supports urgent and broad access&#8221; to booster doses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get breaking news alerts in the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fox5ny.onelink.me\/T4XU?pid=Web&#038;c=in_article&#038;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fox5ny.com%2Fapps\"><strong>free FOX5NY News app!<\/strong><\/a><strong> \u00a0| \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/newsletters\"><strong>Sign up for FOX 5 email newsletters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the organization said its group concluded that immunization with authorized COVID-19 vaccines provide high levels of protection against severe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/infectious-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disease<\/a>\u00a0and death, with boosters especially important for those at risk of severe disease.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for a\u00a0moratorium\u00a0on booster doses, \u00a0citing vaccine inequity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The CDC reports 95.3 million Americans have received a booster dose.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO said it is continuing to monitor the spread of omicron and the emergence of new variants, with vaccines likely needing to be updated in the future.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container mobile\">\n<p class=\"advert-txt\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/cdc-director-expects-covid-19-seasonal-virus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the Full Story at FoxNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer Report: Government program covers funeral expenses of COVID related deaths FOX consumer reporter Steve Noviello discusses a government program that will pay for the funeral of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1897628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}