What is known about new Covid variant XBB.1.5?
The latest Omicron variant is making scientists take notice in the US – so what do you need to know? Source link
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Bill Gates: Outside Chance Pandemic Will Get Worse
May 3, 2022 — Bill Gates says people are tired of living with COVID-19 but warns that difficult days may be ahead. “We’re still at risk of this pandemic generating a variant that would be even more transmissive and even more fatal,” the Microsoft co-founder told The Financial Times in an interview. “It’s not likely, … Read more
Stealth Omicron Now Dominant COVID Variant in U.S.
March 29, 2022 The so-called stealth Omicron variant is now the dominant COVID-19 strain in the United States, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also known as BA.2, the strain comprised nearly 55 percent of domestic coronavirus cases for the week ending March 26. The variant, which has been … Read more
Covid: Rise in UK infections driven by BA.2 Omicron variant
One in 20 people infected, with record high rates in elderly people due a spring Covid booster vaccine. Source link
More Destructive Variant of HIV Spotted in the Netherlands
By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If the pandemic taught the world nothing else, it’s that viruses can mutate, potentially giving rise to new and more harmful variants. Now, new research reveals that’s exactly what has happened with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Called VB (for virulent subtype … Read more
Covid: First UK death recorded with Omicron variant
People should set aside the idea Omicron is a milder variant and get their booster jab, the PM says. Source link
Covid: Vaccines should work against Omicron variant, WHO says
“We have highly effective vaccines that have proved effective against all the variants so far, in terms of severe disease and hospitalisation, and there’s no reason to expect that it wouldn’t be so” for Omicron, Dr Ryan, the WHO’s emergencies director, told AFP news agency. Source link
First Omicron Variant Case Identified in U.S.
Dec. 1, 2021 — The first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the United States was confirmed by officials today in an individual in California who had recently traveled to South Africa. He or she was fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and experienced only “mild symptoms that are improving,” officials with the CDC said. … Read more
Covid: Omicron variant in Netherlands earlier than thought
The new Covid-19 variant is found in Dutch samples taken before it was reported by South Africa. Source link
What We Know – and Don’t — About the Omicron COVID Variant
Nov. 29, 2021 — Health experts across the globe are raising concerns about the newly discovered COVID-19 variant, Omicron, which was first identified in South Africa. The country’s minister of health announced last week that the variant had already spread in different areas of the country. The next day, the World Health Organization designated Omicron … Read more