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U.S. COVID deaths rising but currently likely due to Delta, not Omicron -- CDC chief

Wed, 2022-01-12 12:46 — mike kraft
U.S. COVID deaths rising but likely due to Delta, not Omicron, says CDC chief COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States have increased by about 33% and deaths are up by about 40% from a week earlier, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday. Reuters Reuters
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Other countries struck by Omicron kept their death tolls low. The US is looking different.

Wed, 2022-01-12 12:37 — mike kraft
Other countries struck by Omicron kept their death tolls low. The US is looking different. Deaths in South Africa, the UK, and Denmark appear low compared to prior waves. Experts and data have suggested this may not play out in the US. YahooNews
 
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Study indicates Moderna COVID-19 Shot Lowers Risk Of Infection, Hospitalization Compared To Pfizer's

Wed, 2022-01-12 09:39 — mike kraft
Moderna COVID-19 Shot Lowers Risk Of Infection, Hospitalization Compared To Pfizer's, VA Real-World Data Shows A new real-world study funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) showed that compared to those who received Pfizer Inc's (NYSE: PFE) COVID-19 vaccine, Moderna Inc (NASDAQ: MRNA) vaccine recipients had a significantly lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and related hospitalizations. Lower risk was observed across all age groups, comorbidity-burden categories, and race.
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BioNTech has developed a method to predict new high-risk variants of COVID-19

Tue, 2022-01-11 18:55 — mike kraft
BioNTech has developed a method to predict new high-risk variants of “More than 10,000 novel variant sequences are currently discovered every week and human experts simply cannot cope with complex data at this scale,” said Karim Beguir, Co-Founder and CEO of InstaDeep. Shirin Ali TheHill

 

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Omicron will eventually "find just about everybody," Fauci says

Tue, 2022-01-11 18:12 — mike kraft
Omicron will eventually "find just about everybody," Fauci says With the accelerated spread of the Omicron variant, many more people will find themselves at least exposed to the virus, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday. By <a href="/profiles/rhea-mogul">Rhea Mogul</a>, Adam Renton, Jack Guy and Ed Upright, CNN CNN
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Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in US and Britain--projections

Tue, 2022-01-11 18:06 — mike kraft
Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in US and Britain | AP News Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect, just a month and a half after it was first detected in South Africa . AP NEWS
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Rapid tests are still useful although positive tests are not included in government stats --CDC head says.

Tue, 2022-01-11 17:43 — mike kraft
Rapid tests aren't going toward total case count in the US, CDC head says. Here's why they're still useful. Although the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not including positive rapid tests in its total Covid-19 case counts, the tests are still important for making individual decisions about behavior, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday. By <a href="/profiles/rhea-mogul">Rhea Mogul</a>, Adam Renton, Jack Guy and Ed Upright, CNN CNN
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Two South African studies suggest Omicron has higher 'asymptomatic carriage'

Tue, 2022-01-11 10:12 — mike kraft
South African studies suggest Omicron has higher 'asymptomatic carriage' Preliminary findings from two South African clinical trials suggest the Omicron coronavirus variant has a much higher rate of "asymptomatic carriage" than earlier variants, which could explain why it has spread so rapidly across the globe. Reuters Reuters
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New U.S. COVID hospitalization record indicates that Omicron surge could be less mild than experts hoped

Tue, 2022-01-11 09:27 — mike kraft
U.S. sets new COVID hospitalization record, signaling Omicron surge could be less mild than experts hoped Experts warn that America’s Omicron surge is already more severe than in other countries and will only get worse as it spreads from highly vaccinated cities to less protected parts of the U.S. YahooNews
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U.S. breaks COVID-19 hospitalization record as Omicron surges

Mon, 2022-01-10 18:25 — mike kraft
U.S. breaks COVID-19 hospitalization record at over 132,000 as Omicron surges COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States reached a record high on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, as a surge in infections caused by the highly contagious Omicron variant strains health systems in several states. Maria Caspani,Lisa Shumaker Reuters

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There were 132,646 people hospitalized with COVID, surpassing the record of 132,051 set in January last year.

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