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...
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The EG.5 variant is estimated to be the "dominant" strain in the U.S. because it makes up the largest share of new cases of COVID-19 compared to other variants. On Aug. 18, the CDC estimated EG.5 made up 20.6% of new infections. On Sept. 1, estimates increased to 21.5% of ne...
SARS-COV-2 OMICRON VARIANTSTRESS-INDUCED DEPRESSIONINNATE IMMUNITYMONOCLONAL-ANTIBODIESLYMPHOCYTE APOPTOSISCOMPLEMENT C3T-CELLSPATTERNMEMORYThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a global pandemic for more than 2 years and it still impacts our daily lifestyle and quality in unprecedented ways....
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The full number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths caused by Omicron is uncertain since not every case is sequenced by laboratories to determine what variant caused their infection. While health officials have sounded optimistic that Omicron might lead to a smaller proportion of deaths than in previous wav...
A new COVID-19 strain has emerged that appears likely to stick around in the U.S. through the holiday season. SEE: Latest Coronavirus and Vaccine News JN.1, which is a close relative to BA.2.86, is the fastest growing variant in the U.S. According to estimates from the Cen...
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Mutations are a natural phenomenon in the world of virology. Still, each new variant raises possible concerns due to changes in the virus's ability to bypass theimmune systemor escape the protections provided by vaccines. A woman is seen preparing a dose of the COVID vaccine. (credit: FLASH...
COVID-19 variant trackers are now closely watching the rise of a new virus variant called XEC, which has been spotted around the world and in half of states across the United States. Health officials are so far not raising concern about this variant, unlike some previous, more highly ...