Viruses mutate to survive. To date, the two biggest variants of SARS-CoV2, thevirusresponsible for COVID-19, have been the delta and omicron variants. They had very different characteristics from earlier variants and from each other. Comparatively, the difference between the original omicronvariant...
Narrator: Is Omicron more dangerous than the Delta variant? Slavea Chankova: We don’t know yet whether Omicron causes more severe disease than Delta or other variants. It’s still too early to tell, however preliminary evidence suggests that this may not be the case, and that really hasn...
Patients with the new variant have also been found to carrymore of the virus. Together, this provides strong evidence the B.1.1.7 variant is between 40% and 70% more transmissible than the original variant. The variants found in South Africa and Brazilshare some of the same mutationsas the...
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New York Times / Redux / eyevine We don’t know for sure where or how the omicron variant of the coronavirus acquired suchan extensive and dangerous set of mutationsbeforebeginning to spread like wildfire around the world, and we may never know. It most likely evolved in a single...
How dangerous is COVID-19? And what do the numbers really mean?Alice, Bob, Cindy, and Frank continue their discussion on June 29, 2020. In total, 10,226,574 Covid-19 infections and 517,350 deaths from the disease have been reported worldwide. In the U.S., there has been a 79% ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Cadell Walker rushed to get her 9-year-old daughter Solome vaccinated against COVID-19 — not just to protect her but to help stop the coronavirus from spreading and spawning even more dangerous variants. “Love thy neighbor is something that we really do believe, ...
"The idea that repeated infections are a preferable means of generating population immunity to vaccines, especially in children, is a dangerous nonsense." Doctor's three-year struggle with long COVID Concerns over 'silent organ damage' from COVID ...
After India went into lockdown in March 2020, the number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases detected there each day dropped by an alarming 70% in one month. “It freaked us out,” says Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership, an organization in Geneva, Switzerland, that ...
Breakthrough infections. Increased transmission. New mask recommendations and mandates. The Delta variant is fueling COVID-19 cases across the U.S., and raising questions about what this all means for the course of the pandemic.