A colorized scanning electron micrograph of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Credit: NIAID People who are vaccinated and have had a booster shot against COVID-19 recover from symptoms from the Omicron variant more than three days earlier than those with the Delta variant, a study said Friday. The study also found that people with Omicron are significantly...
The country needs to control the virus until it has boosted vaccination rates in elderly people and reinforced the health-care system. By Dyani Lewis In some parts of China, barricades have been set up around communities with high numbers of COVID-19 cases. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty All eyes are on China as it attempts to quash...
Saima May Sidik A man is swabbed for SARS-CoV-2 in New Zealand, where the BA.2 subvariant on the rise. Credit: Adam Bradley/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Good news for the pandemic-weary: a study1 shows that previous infection with the widely circulating BA.1 version of the Omicron coronavirus variant provides strong protection against its relative BA.2, which is growing in...
Ralph Ellis February 10, 2022 With the Omicron variant now accounting for almost 100% of COVID-19 cases in the United States, the seven-day average of daily COVID-related deaths hit 2,600 recently, the highest rate in about a year, The Washington Post reported. That’s higher than the approximately 2,000 daily deaths last autumn during the Delta surge, but less than...
by Nathan Bartlett, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt said last week he expects the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) to change the definition of “fully vaccinated” to three doses instead of two. It comes as evidence emerges suggesting the highly infectious omicron variant has the ability to escape the...
by Mark Kennedy and Ken Sweet Kristin Travis, a community outreach doula, holds a home COVID-19 test kit Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, while picking up supplies at Open Arms Perinatal Services before going out to visit some of her clients in Seattle. With the brutal omicron wave rapidly easing its grip, new cases of COVID-19...
by Laura Hegwer, Rush University Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Once we’ve ridden the omicron wave, what’s next? Many have assumed that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is evolving into a less dangerous virus because the now-dominant omicron variant tends to cause milder COVID-19. And while that’s generally how certain viruses evolve, they...
By Katherine J. Wu Getty; The Atlantic JANUARY 21, 2022 Even before Omicron hit the United States in full force, most of our bodies had already wised up to SARS-CoV-2’s insidious spike—through infection, injection, or both. By the end of October 2021, some 86.2 percent of American immune systems may have glimpsed the virus’s most infamous protein, according...
by Laura Ungar and Lindsey Tanner Nancy Rose, center in mirror, speaks with her mother, Amy Russell, right, who both contracted COVID-19 in 2021, in their dining room surrounded by pictures of relatives and family, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, in Port Jefferson, N.Y. More than a third of COVID-19 survivors by some estimates develop lingering...
by Laura Ungar A medical worker wearing protective gear collects a sample from a resident at a coronavirus test site in Xichen District in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Hong Kong has already suspended many overseas flights and requires arrivals be quarantined, similar to mainland China’s “zero-tolerance” approach to the virus that has placed millions...
