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...
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...
Will Arcturus Lead to Another COVID-19 Surge? Although the subvariant appears to be more transmissible than the current dominant strain in the U.S., that doesn’t necessarily mean the U.S. will see more coronavirus cases as XBB.1.16 increases. Given that most ...
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 situation...
On December 20, health officials in Texasreportedthe first known U.S. death linked to Omicron. The man was in his 50s, unvaccinated, had underlying health conditions, and had previously survived a case of COVID-19. The full number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths caused by Omicron is uncertain...
U.S. have decreased 19.5%in the most recent week, with .4% of all emergency department visits being COVID-19 patients. The most recent data on the test positivity rate is from the week ending May 3, which was 2.9%. When test positivity is above 5%, transmission is considered ...
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...
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Utilization may not return to the pre-pandemic level, as the decline is partly due to mortality during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 to 2021). Additionally, much of the returning care is anticipated to shift toward non-acute settings, such as ambulat...
Most of the patients were from the United States, but the study also included people from Australia, the UK, Spain, Bulgaria, India, Malaysia and Taiwan. The study could not tell if people had experienced ongoing symptoms for the full two years since a Covid-19 diagnosis: “That might be...