{"id":83381,"date":"2022-07-20T17:14:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T17:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ba-5-makes-up-nearly-80-of-new-covid-19-cases-here-s-what-to-know-about-the-subvariant"},"modified":"2022-10-18T16:04:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:04:46","slug":"ba-5-makes-up-nearly-80-of-new-covid-19-cases-here-s-what-to-know-about-the-subvariant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/ba-5-makes-up-nearly-80-of-new-covid-19-cases-here-s-what-to-know-about-the-subvariant","title":{"rendered":"BA.5 makes up nearly 80% of new COVID-19 cases. Here&#8217;s what to know about the subvariant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BA.5 subvariant of omicron dominates the summer wave of COVID-19&nbsp;in the USA, making up nearly 80% of new cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nowcast model . In the most recent week, ending Wednesday, 29 states reported more cases&nbsp;than the week before, a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. Twenty states had more deaths than a week earlier. Hospitals in 35 states reported more COVID-19 patients, and hospitals in 25 states had more patients in intensive care beds, according to Health and Human Services data. Here&#8217;s what you should know about BA.5. When did BA.5 start? BA.5 was detected in the USA at the end of April , experts said . The subvariant was first seen in South Africa &#8220;but that doesn&#8217;t mean that it arrived (to the U.S.) from South Africa,&#8221; said David Dowdy, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers don&#8217;t know where it came from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the subvariant was first detected at the end of April, experts say, it&#8217;s been a slow rise to the top for BA.5. Here&#8217;s what else to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,59,60],"class_list":["post-83381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-health","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}