What's circulating now? The COVID virus is continually changing, and a recent version is rapidly climbing the charts. Even though it appeared only in September, thevariant known as JN.1, a descendant of omicron, israpidly spreading, representing between 39% to half of the cases, according t...
The mRNA vaccine technologies enable a single shot to address multiple variants, an approach taken with the most recent round of booster shots, which were designed to address the original strain and the Omicron variant. However, the updated vaccines approved and authorized on Monday are monovalent ...
What's circulating now? The COVID virus is continually changing, and a recent version is rapidly climbing the charts. Even though it appeared only in September, the variant known as JN.1, a descendant of omicron, is rapidly spreading, representing between 39% to half of the cases, according...
COVID-19 variant trackers are now closely watching the rise of a new virus variant called XEC, which has been spotted around the world and in half of states across the United States. Health officials are so far not raising concern about this variant, unlike some previous, more highly mutated...
15 and their proportion has been rising steadily among circulating cases since then. The two variants are descendants of Omicron's BA.5 subvariant and have been spreading rapidly in Europe. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has said they were likely to become the dominant...
"The Omicron variant is now dominant. As our national health system is still under pressure from Delta, we must evaluate all the factors so that it can continue to cope," said Greek Health Minister Thanos Plevris. Faced with this spike, the government decided to bring forward a series of ...
Currently, thedominant variant nationwide is XEC, with 37% of cases, followed by LP.8.1, with 31% of cases, and KP.3.1.1, with 9% of cases. "The original omicron variant is gone now," says Dr. Rupp. "Currently subvariants of omicron are circulating, including MC.1, KP.3, and LF...
Manufacturers have reformulated the vaccines to protect against the omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant, which was the dominant strain circulating for most of 2023. It has since been overtaken by other strains, but the updated COVID-19 vaccine appears to generate a strong immune response against BA.2.86,...
than the current dominant Delta variant. The move goes against the advice of the World Health Organization (WHO), which has warned against any overreaction before the variant was thoroughly studied. Epidemiologists also say travel curbs may be too late to stop Omicron from circulating gl...
COVID-19加强针疫苗获得了美国疾控中心的一个顾问委员会和疾控中心负责人罗谢尔·瓦伦斯基的授权。 And what's different about this shot is that it protects against the original version of the virus, and also what's currently circulating, which is called BA.4 or BA.5. ...