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Jun 14, 2022 · Two new subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, have been gaining ground in the United States. During the week ending June 11, the two subvariants accounted for 21.6 percent of cases in the country, up from ...
Sep 1, 2023 · The variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 first surfaced in the United States toward the end of 2021 and spread like wildfire, spawning new sub-strains—some more transmissible than others. Now, multiple Omicron subvariants are driving most of the COVID-19 cases in the United States. The newest Omicron strain arrived in the ...
May 22, 2021 · Scientists reported the discovery of an entirely new coronavirus in Malaysia this week, one that likely came from dogs. It doesn't cause COVID-19. But it could be just the eighth coronavirus ever ...
Mar 1, 2022 · March 1, 2022 at 9:00 am. In November, a new coronavirus variant took the world by storm. Omicron has since caused an unprecedented wave of infections, striking about 90 million people in just 10 ...
Dec 20, 2020 · An initial analysis of the new variant has been published and identifies 17 potentially important alterations. There have been changes to the spike protein - this is the key the virus uses to ...
Jan 31, 2024 · The JN.1 strain surfaced in the U.S. in September. It is a close relative of BA.2.86 (informally referred to as “Pirola”), a lineage of the Omicron variant that the CDC has been tracking since August. (While the Omicron variant, which first took hold in the U.S. in 2021, has had multiple descendants, the original strain is no longer in ...
Feb 5, 2021 · In real terms, that means that for men aged 70–84, the number who are likely to die from COVID-19 increases from roughly 5% for those who test positive for the older variant, to more than 6% for ...
