Health authorities say they're closely tracking the spread of three new COVID-19 variants now spreading around the country. Levels of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths for now remain far below previous peaks seen during past summer and winter waves of the virus, but have been climbing ...
COVID-19 has significantly impacted the world since its outbreak in 2019. Although vaccines have been developed and distributed globally, the virus continues to mutate, posing a challenge to public health officials worldwide. In 2024,the world is still grappling with the pandemic. That’s because...
The virus that causes COVID keeps mutating, producing new variants, or strains. This is a natural process. Most of these changes make no difference to a person's health. But some mutations make a COVID variant spread more easily or cause a more severe form of the disease. COVID Variant ...
Risk perception as a motivational resource during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of vaccination status and emerging variants Joachim Waterschoot Maarten Vansteenkiste Omer Van den Bergh BMC Public Health (2024) Trends in symptom prevalence and sequential onset of SARS-CoV-2 infection from 2020...
From South Africa and Brazil to the UK, new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are regularly being discovered, coinciding with an accelerating international vaccination program. Although this is a normal development, these latest variants are causing alarm. They are fast-spreading, i...
Here's the latest of what we know about COVID-19 variants in the U.S. What is the current new variant of COVID-19? According to the latest projections published by the CDC, around 28.2% of COVID-19 cases nationwide are now being caused by a sublineage of the virus called the KP....
At the beginning of October, each of the two new variants accounted for about 1 percent of new infections in the United States. They have replaced BA.5 to be dominant strains in the United States in mid-November.■
Omicron Sub-Variants BA.4, BA.5 Make up More Than 50% of U.S. COVID Cases - CDC More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A person takes a COVID-19 test in Times Square as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., Dec...
Turville said that the new variations, while small, could lead to unexpected spikes in case numbers and deaths. Turville noted that as new variants arise, it also may make people who have already caught the virus vulnerable to catch it again. ...
“By March, however, it accounted for about 50 per cent of samples in Lima and now it’s about 80 per cent. That would suggest its rate of transmission is higher than other variants,” he said. According to the WHO, Lambda accounted for 82 per cent of new Covid-19 cases in May an...