How Hard Will the New Covid Variant Hit Idaho? There’s a new variant of COVID and omicron called HV.1 that is spreading rapidly around the United States. The variant is a powerful and contagious mutation of the deadly virus that has only been around for a few months but has quickly b...
COVID-19 is deadly to older adults, with research showing that being older and having underlying chronic diseases are significant risk factors for COVID-19 related deaths. However, though similarities exist between both nursing home residents and older community-dwelling people, ...
But it's actually quite strange for this variant to be more deadly. There's not a selective advantage for a virus to kill its host, because it might kill its host before they transmit the virus. Scientists still need to find out why this variant is more deadly, and how it came about....
is now the most common Covid strain circulating in the U.S., the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. The variant, known as B.1.1.7, is "now the most common lineage circulating in the United States." CDC Director Dr. Rachelle Walensky ...
Medical experts say while the COVID-19 vaccine appears to be effective with this new variant, children could be more at risk of getting sick. "Again remember, it's a more infectious strain so it's going there are going to be more infections in both children and in ...
The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization said Monday, stressing a vaccine would be necessary to fully halt transmission.
For the last few months, JN.1 has been the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States, making up the majority of cases. A new variant, however, has taken over and may lead to an increase in cases this summer. KP.2, which is an offshoot of the omicron vari...
What exactly is the delta variant? Thedelta variantis a strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and was first detected in India but has spread worldwide, saysDr. Sachin Nagrani, MD, medical director ofHeal. “It appears to be more contagious and deadly than the original...
Not being a scientist or medical researcher, I am going to ask, not assert, whether these mutations could very well be manmade just as the original Wuhan COVID was? Also it would be remiss of me to not point out that if these new mutant strains are so much more deadly and resistant ...
First, the Omicron variant is much less deadly. Warding off the much more dangerous virus strains with its prevention and control measures, China has chosen a less costly time to lift its COVID restrictions. Second, the country has launched the world's largest vaccination campaign in scale to...