{"id":1553816,"date":"2022-07-14T08:35:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1553816"},"modified":"2022-07-14T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:35:30","slug":"world-health-organization-warns-covid-nowhere-near-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/world-health-organization-warns-covid-nowhere-near-over\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organization Warns COVID \u2018Nowhere Near Over\u2019"},"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%2Fworld-health-organization-warns-covid-nowhere-near-over%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=1553816&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>Most Americans are done with COVID \u2014 the lockdowns, the masks, the fear \u2014 but apparently, the virus isn\u2019t quite done with us.<\/p>\n<p>The latest unpleasant news comes from the World Health Organization (WHO) as a new subvariant of Omicron known as BA.5 continues its spread across the U.S. and the world.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cThe virus is running freely,\u201d the WHO said. \u201cNew waves of the virus demonstrate again that covid-19 is nowhere near over,\u201d according to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">It\u2019s not just the U.S. that\u2019s being hit. \u201cA new COVID-19 wave is ramping up across the European Union,\u201d the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said Monday in a statement. The center said governments should prepare \u201cfor a next expected wave in the autumn and winter seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Meanwhile in China, the spread of the BA.5 subvariant raises concerns that cities like Shanghai, home to nearly 30 million people, might be forced back into lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/white-house\">White House<\/a> urged Americans to get yet another booster for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/covid-19\">COVID<\/a>, this time to address the BA.5, which has quickly become the dominant strain in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/variants\/omicron-variant.html?s_cid=11734:covid%20omnicron%20variant:sem.ga:p:RG:GM:gen:PTN:FY22\">estimates<\/a> BA.5 accounts for about 65% of all COVID cases in the U.S. Another strain, BA.4, is responsible for about 16% of infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBA.5 is something we\u2019re closely monitoring, and most importantly, we know how to manage it,\u201d Ashish Jha, the White House\u2019s COVID response coordinator, said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can prevent serious illness, we can keep people out of the hospital and especially out of the ICU, we can save lives, and we can minimize the disruptions caused by COVID-19,\u201d Jha said. \u201cAnd even in the face of BA.5, the tools we have continue to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BA.5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-01771-3\">concerns<\/a> scientists because it can infect people who have already had COVID or been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a panel of independent advisers that works with the Food and Drug Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fda-panel-recommends-new-covid-19-shots-to-target-omicron-variant\">recommended<\/a> producing new COVID vaccines to target the Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>By a 19-2 vote, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee approved a plan to have new vaccines ready by early October. The panel said the newly formulated vaccines are needed because new subvariants of the Omicron strain appear to be able to bypass antibodies delivered via previous vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>That would mean Americans could be urged to take a fourth shot, with fifth shots for the immunocompromised and people over 50 years old.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans are done with COVID \u2014 the lockdowns, the masks, the fear \u2014 but apparently, the virus isn\u2019t quite done with us. The latest unpleasant news comes from the World Health Organization (WHO) as a new subvariant of Omicron known as BA.5 continues its spread across the U.S. and the world. \u201cThe virus is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1554061,"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-1553816","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\/1553816","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1554061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}