By Brenda Goodman, CNN August 28, 2023 Experts say it’s less risky to catch Covid-19 than it used to be, but there are still good reasons not to treat it casually. Daly […]
EXCLUSIVE: BA.2.86 Covid variant IS spreading in the US: Virginia resident who traveled from Japan becomes second US patient to be infected with mutant strain – as experts say case is just the tip of the iceberg
By LUKE ANDREWS HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM UPDATED: 15:35 EDT, 22 August 202 A second American tested positive for the new highly-mutated BA.2.86 Covid variant that has been causing global alarm over […]
Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccines — A Cautionary Tale .
List of authors. Paul A. Offit, M.Dt of authors. Paul A. Offit, M.D New England Journal of Medicine January 23, 2023 in Wuhan, China. Two months later, the original strain […]
What COVID-19 variants are going around in November 2022?
Authors: Nebraska Medicine November 1, 2022 There are currently more than 37,000 cases reported in the United States per day, with test positivity of 8.6%. When test positivity is above 5%, […]
Unraveling the Interplay of Omicron, Reinfections, and Long Covid
Authors: Liz Szabo AUGUST 26, 2022 KHN The latest covid-19 surge, caused by a shifting mix of quickly evolving omicron subvariants, appears to be waning, with cases and hospitalizations beginning to […]
Omicron’s Mutations Impaired Vaccine Effectiveness, CDC Says
Authors: Madison Muller August 25, 2022 Bloomberg Almost 40% of people hospitalized in the US with the Covid subvariant that circulated this spring were vaccinated and boosted, highlighting how new […]
Why Are So Many People Getting COVID a Second and Third Time?
Doctors say if you got infected with the Omicron BA.1 or BA.2 variants, your antibodies might not fully protect you against the newer BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants now spreading through […]
Two new Omicron COVID subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 being analyzed by WHO
Only a few dozen cases of BA.4 and BA.5 have been reported to the global GISAID database, according to WHO Authors: Jennifer Rigby Reuters April 11, 2022 The World Health […]
COVID cases rise again in half the states
Change in reported COVID-19 cases per 100k people in the last two weeks March 23 to April 5, 2022 Half of the states are seeing COVID case numbers rise again […]
This New COVID Variant Is the Most Unpredictable One Yet
Authors: David Axe Published Apr. 03, 2022 10:47PM ET After spreading across Asia and Europe, the BA.2 subvariant of the novel coronavirus is now dominant in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]