What is the COVID variant, exactly? One of the reasons COVID-19 variants are emerging is because not enough people are vaccinated yet, says Dr. Judith Lightfoot, DO, FACOI, chief of infectious disease at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. “The longer you have a virus which ...
This year in Australia, the XBB COVID strains have dominated, and acquired a couple of key mutations. When COVID mutates into new variants, it doesn't affect the ability of either Paxlovid or Lagevrio to work because the parts of the virus that change from the mutations aren't those ta...
To establish a direct link between a variant and a steep rise in cases in a short time, it is important to use genomic sequencing to link clusters together. But unless contact tracing is done meticulously, it isn't easy to do so. It is also important to understand the mechanisms involved...
The World Health Organization declared the recently discovered B.1.1.529 strain of the COVID-19 virus to be a variant of concern on November 26 and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of COVID-19 variants, along with the globally dominant Delta...
Here's the latest about what we know about the new COVID-19 variants now on the rise.What are current new COVID variants? There are two that are fairly prevalent and one — the highly mutated variant — that is not as widespread, for now. Every two weeks, the Centers for Disease Con...
"Viruses mutate when they transmit from person to person — this is the normal state of things, that you're going to see new variants emerge," she explained. "XEC is just the latest, but we will see more." Why is the XEC variant in the news?
The new boosters have been reformulated to target omicron XBB.1.5, which was the dominant COVID variant for most of 2023. While XBB.1.5 has since been overtaken by HV.1 and other variants, it is still closely related to these newer strains. ...
What We Know about the COVID Variant from India音频:00:0005:44 (↑点击上面在线试听今天的音频,音频播放器已经支持暂停、快进、后退功能了) 听力参考原文 ↓↓↓ [00:00.04]India has recorded the world's sharpest increase [0...
Who is eligible for treatment? Not everybody needs to be treated if they test positive for COVID-19. Dr. Sarah Hochman, a hospital epidemiologist and infectious diseases physician at NYU Langone Health, said treatment is recommended for those who are at higher risk of severe illness inc...
A new COVID-19 strain, dubbed XEC, is making the rounds. Here’s what you should know about the new variant. This Season Trending Today Latest Weather Health Sun & Moon Travel Climate Weather in your inbox Your local forecast, plus daily trivia, stunning photos and our meteorologists’ top...