{"id":1549376,"date":"2022-07-11T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1549376"},"modified":"2022-07-11T19:49:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T23:49:17","slug":"biden-top-health-official-warns-of-a-resurgence-of-covid-variants-starting-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-top-health-official-warns-of-a-resurgence-of-covid-variants-starting-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Top Health Official Warns Of A \u2018Resurgence\u2019 Of COVID Variants Starting This Fall"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fbiden-top-health-official-warns-of-a-resurgence-of-covid-variants-starting-this-fall%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=1549376&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--><p>As Americans across the nation move past the pandemic, President Joe Biden\u2019s top health official sounded the alarm on Monday that existing or new variants of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/covid-19\">COVID<\/a> may resurge toward the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome the fall and winter,\u201d\u00a0 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), told a reporter. \u201cMost everyone who is an expert on pandemics and these viruses will tell you that there\u2019s a strong chance we will see a resurgence of the virus \u2014 whether it\u2019s the variants that we have now or the new variants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gotta be ready,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Becerra, who listed ending the pandemic as his top priority when appointed the position, <a href=\"https:\/\/aspr.hhs.gov\/legal\/PHE\/Pages\/COVID19-12Apr2022.aspx\">renewed<\/a> the Public Health Emergency Orders on April 12 for another 90 days with an expiration date of July 15.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-07-11\/white-house-to-extend-covid-public-health-emergency#:~:text=The%20Biden%20administration%20has%20said,public%20health%20emergency%20in%20May.\">reported<\/a> on Monday the Biden Administration would push the COVID emergency health orders back since HHS did not issue a 60 days notice to states since the last renewal, which the department pledged to do if it decided to terminate the orders.<\/p>\n<p>Since he took his position shortly after Biden assumed office last year, Becerra has extended the public health emergency orders five times.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1546533263476461573\">shared<\/a> Becerra\u2019s latest comment adding the Biden Administration promised to shut down the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it was all a lie,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users flooded the tweet with comments saying the so-called resurgence would rise from the \u201cmidterm variant,\u201d as Becerra hinted the spike could happen around the 2022 Midterm elections in November.<\/p>\n<p>Becerra\u2019s COVID concerns emerged the same day legacy media circulated reports of scientists warning Americans of a new coronavirus mutant spreading in India and other countries \u2014 including the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-india-united-states-e461b0c0db39707aab884378c24292ae\">reports<\/a> that scientists said the new variant, BA.2.75, may stand against immunity, previous infections, and vaccines. However, the effects of the mutation remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still really early for us to draw too many conclusions,\u201d Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told The Associated Press. \u201cBut it does look like, especially in India, the rates of transmission are showing kind of that exponential increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shishi Luo, head of infectious diseases for Helix, which provides the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with viral sequencing information, told The Associated Press since many countries worldwide have detected BA.2.75, it\u2019s \u201can early indication it is spreading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But despite the ongoing spread of the coronavirus, a recent Senate Opportunity Fund survey suggests only 21 percent of Americans consider COVID a top concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Americans across the nation move past the pandemic, President Joe Biden\u2019s top health official sounded the alarm on Monday that existing or new variants of COVID may resurge toward the end of the year. \u201cCome the fall and winter,\u201d\u00a0 Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), told a reporter. \u201cMost everyone who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1549414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549376","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1549414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}