More than a third ofCOVID-19cases in the U.S. are now estimated to be from a new, fast-growing member of a group of so-called "FLiRT" variants, nicknamed for their small but distinctive changes relative to the JN.1 strain. JN.1 was the variant behind this pastwinter waveof infectio...
What is the XEC strain of coronavirus? XEC is a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic. The Public Health Agency of Canada says it is a hybrid of Omicron subvariants KS. 1.1 and KP. 3.3. In an email Friday, a spokesperson for the World Health Organ...
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...
available to the provider,” Dr. Russo says. Basically, there are a lot of “ifs” involved. Given that Omicron is now the dominant strain of COVID-19, Dr. Adalja says that resources are likely to shift to allow for more production of GSK's monoclonal antibody treatment, just to be ...
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
It is the nickname for a worrying new subvariant of the Omicron strain of COVID-19. “It is on the increase in the U.S. and Europe and has now been identified in more than 25 countries,”said World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday, Jan. 4. ...
COVID-19 and the new variant strain in England – What are the implications for those from ethnic minority groups?doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100805Daniel Pan a bShirley Sze cChristopher A Martin a bClareece R Nevill dJatinder S Minhas c...
For example, if someone has been to a conference in a country with Type C present, and then tested positive for the same strain, everyone else at that conference can be identified and told to isolate. "That is one really down to earth application of these phyl...
Here's what you need to know about the nasal COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial now underway: What is the new vaccine candidate? The candidate, MPV/S-2P, uses a live-weakened version of a virus called murine pneumonia virus (MPV), which does not cause disease in hum...
Valni Haughton, Head of Occupational Health at Cathay Pacific Airways, shares information about the current outbreak of COVID-19 based on expert advice from the WHO, IATA and Hong Kong’s local health authority, and how Cathay Pacific is responding to the situatio...