{"id":5909,"date":"2025-09-26T13:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5909"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:49:45","slug":"new-virus-strain-spreads-in-multiple-sta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5909","title":{"rendered":"New virus strain spreads in multiple sta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Covid Variant Driving Surge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The XFG variant, also called Stratus, now makes up \u201c80 percent of US Covid cases\u201d as of September 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First detected in March, it has quickly become the dominant strain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>High Wastewater Activity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CDC data shows wastewater levels are \u201chigh nationally,\u201d with 29 states reporting high or very high activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infections are \u201cgrowing\u201d or \u201clikely growing\u201d in states such as Minnesota, Michigan, and New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More Contagious, Not Deadlier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>XFG is a hybrid of two Omicron strains and is \u201cmore contagious than previous variants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Symptoms remain the same\u2014fever, cough, fatigue, congestion, and loss of taste or smell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Signs of Slowing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the rise, hospitalizations fell from \u201c2.5 per 100,000\u201d to 1.5, and test positivity dropped from \u201c10.9 percent\u201d to 9.5 percent in the week ending September 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Covid Variant Driving Surge The XFG variant, also called Stratus, now makes up \u201c80 percent of US Covid cases\u201d as of September 9. First detected in March, it has quickly become the dominant strain. High Wastewater Activity CDC data shows wastewater levels are \u201chigh nationally,\u201d with 29 states reporting high or very high activity&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5911,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions\/5911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}