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5 days ago · The FLiRT strains are subvariants of Omicron. One of them, KP.2, accounted for 28.2% of COVID infections in the United States by the third week of May, making it the dominant coronavirus variant in the country; another, KP.1.1, made up 7.1% of cases. Some experts have suggested that the new variants could cause a summer surge in COVID cases.
2 days ago · Taken together, KP.2 and KP.3 were estimated to be responsible for more than 2 in 5 new infections in recent weeks. The FLiRT COVID-19 strains don’t yet appear to produce any new or unique symptoms.
2 days ago · The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to the World Health Organization. The ...
4 days ago · KP.2 is now the dominant strain in the U.S., according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The strain accounted for 28.2% of all cases in the two weeks to May ...
1 day ago · May 17, 2024. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has also started to see a very small uptick in cases in recent days. From May 10 to 15, the most recent data available, there were ...
4 days ago · For the week ending on May 11, there were 2,820 positive cases officially recorded in the state. Concerningly, a substantial portion of new cases were in people aged 90 and older.
2 days ago · The pandemic wiped out nearly a decade of progress in improving life expectancy within just two years. Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years to 71.4 years (back to the level of 2012). Similarly, global healthy life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years to 61.9 years in 2021 (back to the level of 2012).
