{"id":70853,"date":"2026-04-04T07:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/new-covid-variant-ba-3-2-detected-across-us-but-experts-urge-vigilance-over-alarm\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:05:46","slug":"new-covid-variant-ba-3-2-detected-across-us-but-experts-urge-vigilance-over-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/new-covid-variant-ba-3-2-detected-across-us-but-experts-urge-vigilance-over-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"New Covid variant BA.3.2 detected across US, but experts urge vigilance over alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strain found in 29 states and Puerto Rico carries spike mutations, but no data shows increased severity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BA.3.2, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/omicron\">Omicron<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ve\/article\/12\/1\/veag011\/8490867\">variant<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> with dozens of new spike mutations, has been detected in 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\">US<\/a> states and Puerto Rico, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/75\/wr\/mm7510a1.htm\">according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>, but experts say there is not yet evidence it is more severe than other recent variants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right response to BA.3.2 is serious attention, not alarm,\u201d says Dr Jake Scott, a Stanford professor and infectious disease expert who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMsa2514268\">authored a systematic review of Covid vaccines <\/a>for the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/04\/covid-19-variant-ba32\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strain found in 29 states and Puerto Rico carries spike mutations, but no data shows increased severity Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox BA.3.2, an Omicron variant of Covid-19 with dozens of new spike mutations, has been detected in 29 US states and Puerto Rico, according &#8230; <a title=\"New Covid variant BA.3.2 detected across US, but experts urge vigilance over alarm\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/new-covid-variant-ba-3-2-detected-across-us-but-experts-urge-vigilance-over-alarm\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Covid variant BA.3.2 detected across US, but experts urge vigilance over alarm\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}