{"id":562248,"date":"2022-12-16T01:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=562248"},"modified":"2022-12-16T01:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T06:14:46","slug":"omicron-bq-xbb-subvariants-are-a-serious-threat-to-boosters-and-knock-out-antibody-treatments-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=562248","title":{"rendered":"Omicron BQ, XBB subvariants are a serious threat to boosters and knock out antibody treatments, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Scientists, in a study published online in the journal Cell, found that the BQ and XBB subvariants are \u201cbarely susceptible to neutralization\u201d by the vaccines, including the new omicron boosters.<\/li>\n<li>This could result in a surge of breakthrough infections and reinfections, though the vaccines have been shown to hold up against severe disease, they wrote.<\/li>\n<li>Key antibody drugs, Evusheld and bebtelovimab, were \u201ccompletely inactive\u201d against the new subvariants, according to the study.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/14\/covid-news-bq-xbb-omicron-subvariants-pose-serious-threat-to-boosters.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/14\/covid-news-bq-xbb-omicron-subvariants-pose-serious-threat-to-boosters.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists, in a study published online in the journal Cell, found that the BQ and XBB subvariants are \u201cbarely susceptible to neutralization\u201d by the vaccines, including the new omicron boosters. This could result in a surge of breakthrough infections and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=562248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}