{"id":73693,"date":"2026-05-18T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/hantavirus-isnt-the-next-covid-but-heres-why-we-should-worry-stateside-with-kai-and-carter\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:00:09","slug":"hantavirus-isnt-the-next-covid-but-heres-why-we-should-worry-stateside-with-kai-and-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/hantavirus-isnt-the-next-covid-but-heres-why-we-should-worry-stateside-with-kai-and-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hantavirus isn\u2019t the next Covid. But here&#8217;s why we should worry &#8211; Stateside with Kai and Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All month, people all over the world have been nervously watching as the Hantavirus spread aboard a cruise ship called the MV Hondius. Three people from the ship died and as the virus spread to other passengers, people wondered \u2013 is this the next pandemic? It isn&#8217;t. But as Guardian health correspondent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/melody-schreiber\"> Melody Schreiber<\/a> tells host<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/kai-wright\"> Kai Wright<\/a>, the outbreak revealed how Trump&#8217;s cuts to government funding for public health and a climate of rampant misinformation have affected our readiness for the next pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/may\/18\/hantavirus-isnt-the-next-covid-but-heres-why-we-should-worry-stateside-with-kai-and-carter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All month, people all over the world have been nervously watching as the Hantavirus spread aboard a cruise ship called the MV Hondius. Three people from the ship died and as the virus spread to other passengers, people wondered \u2013 is this the next pandemic? It isn&#8217;t. But as Guardian health correspondent Melody Schreiber tells &#8230; <a title=\"Hantavirus isn\u2019t the next Covid. But here&#8217;s why we should worry &#8211; Stateside with Kai and Carter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/hantavirus-isnt-the-next-covid-but-heres-why-we-should-worry-stateside-with-kai-and-carter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hantavirus isn\u2019t the next Covid. But here&#8217;s why we should worry &#8211; Stateside with Kai and Carter\">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-73693","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\/73693","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=73693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}