The COVID-19 pandemic and the scare that came with a new virus and massive death tolls may seem like a distant memory to some, but COVID isn’t gone and some new strains are just as scary as COVID-19. How Hard Will the New Covid Variant Hit Idaho? There’s a new variant of CO...
The new COVID variant XEC has been found by UK health experts as they prepare for winter, when cases tend to increase. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has highlighted a slight increase in hospitalisations amidCOVIDpatients recently, with the admission rate at 4.5 per 100,000 people i...
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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 ...
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 ...
coming back to haunt us.” As more worrying information about the new “Omicron” variant is presented, Brown writes that when we have billions of doses of a life-saving vaccine “no country should be facing yet another winter with the uncertainty of a new wave of Covid hanging over us...
Or, he says the mutation could make the virus “wimpier,” causing less severe disease. “We should be concerned, because the new variants only become because this virus hasn’t gone away,” Dr. Lightfoot explains. Related: Are There Any COVID Vaccine Side Effects? Until more people ...
A new South African strain has the two changes seen before, plus some others. The one in the U.K. has the two changes and more, including eight to the spike protein, Gupta said. It's called a "variant under investigation" because its significance is not yet known. ...
Over the past four years, the U.S. has seen summer waves of COVID and this summer may also bring a rise in cases, but not severe as in past seasons. MORE: COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record low, the CDC says "We've had four consecutive increases of COVID i...
You may have seen headlines recently about the omicron variant of COVID-19, or read about it on social media. There's still a great deal of uncertainty about this new variant, and some of the information people are sharing can be misleading. So we want t