{"id":6833,"date":"2023-08-24T16:54:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/08\/24\/ohio-becomes-the-third-state-to-detect-highly-mutated-ba-2-86-covid-variant-that-can\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:54:31","slug":"ohio-becomes-the-third-state-to-detect-highly-mutated-ba-2-86-covid-variant-that-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/ohio-becomes-the-third-state-to-detect-highly-mutated-ba-2-86-covid-variant-that-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio becomes the THIRD state to detect highly-mutated BA.2.86 Covid variant that ‘can"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A highly mutated variant feared to be better at infecting vaccinated people has now been detected in a third state.<\/p>\n
The BA.2.86 strain<\/a> was picked up via wastewater testing in Ohio<\/a>, the state’s health department announced Wednesday, after\u00a0the variant was detected in Virginia and Michigan<\/a> over the past week.<\/p>\n Further analysis by the\u00a0Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC<\/a>) is ongoing to confirm the Ohio sample is the new strain, also known as ‘Pirola’.<\/p>\n The CDC announced Wednesday it believes ‘the large number of mutations in this variant raises concerns of greater escape from existing immunity from vaccines and previous infections compared with other recent variants.’<\/p>\n It comes as\u00a0Covid hospital admissions across the US jumped 22 percent in a week, the fifth week in a row they have increased. The CDC is now forecasting an acceleration in new hospitalizations over the coming month.<\/p>\n