{"id":2012367,"date":"2023-08-25T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-tentatively-plans-to-push-another-covid-19-booster-with-rise-of-new-variant\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:38:56","slug":"biden-tentatively-plans-to-push-another-covid-19-booster-with-rise-of-new-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-tentatively-plans-to-push-another-covid-19-booster-with-rise-of-new-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden plans to push for another COVID-19 booster due to new variant."},"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\">24<\/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-tentatively-plans-to-push-another-covid-19-booster-with-rise-of-new-variant%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=2012367&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--><h2>President Joe Biden Suggests COVID-19 Booster \u200cShots \u2064as \u200bNew Variant Emerges<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden hinted on Friday that\u2063 a new\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-tentatively-plans-to-push-another-covid-19-booster-with-rise-of-new-variant\/\" title=\"Biden plans to push for another COVID-19 booster due to new variant.\">rising variant<\/a> may require people to plan for another COVID-19 booster shot.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who is set\u2062 to\u200d return to Washington, \u2064D.C. from vacation on Saturday, took a moment to address reporters after an exercise class \u2063in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.<\/p>\n<h3>Boosting Vaccine Funding<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I signed off this morning on a proposal to\u2062 present to the Congress requests for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-unveil-1-9-trillion-covid-19-relief-package\/\" title=\"House Democrats Unveil .9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Package\">additional funding<\/a> for a \u2063new vaccine,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-with-machete-shows-up-at-crisis-pregnancy-center\/\" title=\"Man With Machete Shows Up at Crisis Pregnancy Center\">president revealed<\/a> when questioned about the\u200c surge in COVID-19 cases in\u200c the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Biden stated that he is &#8220;tentatively&#8221; considering recommending another round of shots but has not yet made a final decision.<\/p>\n<h3>New Variant Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>While there have only been 12 reported cases of the new BA.2.86 variant worldwide, experts warn that it is highly contagious and appears \u200cto\u2062 be more resistant \u2062to previous versions of\u200b the vaccine. However, it \u200bdoes not seem to cause\u2064 more severe illness than \u200bthe omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Within the United States,\u2064 there have\u2062 been three registered\u2062 cases of the BA.2.86 variant, along with an increase in the XBB \u2063and EG.5 variants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a radical change of the virus, similar to what happened with \u2062omicron, which caught many people off guard,&#8221; said Eric \u2064Topol, \u2063director \u2064of the Scripps Research\u2064 Translational Institute. &#8220;Even if individuals\u200d have been vaccinated or previously infected, they could \u200dstill be susceptible to reinfection. We are facing that challenge once \u2063again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed and stay safe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden hinted on Friday that individuals should prepare for an additional COVID-19 booster shot due to the emergence of a new variant. Speaking briefly to reporters in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, before returning to Washington, D.C. from vacation, Biden addressed the potential need for further vaccination measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2012367","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=2012367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}