We're gonna begin with growing concerns about a new variant of the coronavirus first discovered earlier this month in South Africa and since turning up in Belgium, Israel, even Hong Kong. The World Health Organizatio...
There is evidence of a new highly-infectious strain of COVID-19 emerging in the UK and other countries. This post is an elaboration of my current model of it, as promised in myreview of LessWrong’s collection onEpistemology. Most of the information I have on this new COVID varian...
Additionally, improved understanding of the virus and advancements in medical treatments have led to more effective management of COVID-19 cases. Early in the pandemic, uncertainty about the virus, limited treatment options, and overwhelmed healthcare systems contributed to a heightened sense of severit...
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 become theleading strain of COVIDin the US. Scient...
Due to the ongoing surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, regardless of circulating variants, CDPH asks Californians to keep taking steps that will limit transmission of the virus and reduce strain on our health care systems. This includes: ...
strain causes illnesses to be more severe. It's also unclear whether that strain is already here in America. There are growing calls to ban all flights from the U.K. to the United States. The restrictions come as the U.S. becomes the first country to employtwo vaccinesagainst COVID-19...
Clinical symptoms induced by the strain are no different from other variants. In the US, the number of COVID-19 deaths reported in the past few weeks stayed at a low level despite wider transmission of XBB. Individuals are advised to continue practicing personal protective measures and wear ...
The mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus genome during the spread of COVID-19 have been unclear. In 788 COVID-19 patients from Zhejiang province, we observed decreased rate of severe/critical cases, increased liver/kidney damage, and prolonged period of nuclear acid positivity, compared with ...
According to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, 46 cases of the new MU variant of COVID-19 have been detected in the province. The information comes from the province’s whole genome sequencing data, which shows that the number of Mu cases has gone up 4.5 per cent, or by four cas...
This decision analytical model estimates the direct and indirect costs as well as the benefits associated with a citywide COVID-19 vaccination initiative