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WHO announces that "Of 899,935 Covid-19 test samples sequenced and uploaded to the global Covid database in the last 60 days, 897,886 (99.8%) were confirmed to be Delta, while 713 (0.1%) were Omicron." Cases in South Africa rise by 110% in one week. [90] Cuba reports its first case, in a person who had traveled from Mozambique. [91]
During January 2022, in Denmark the BA.2 variant grew at ~0.10 per day (+11% per day) as a ratio to BA.1 (the legacy Omicron variant), and became the dominant strain in week 2, 2022. [161] In the United Kingdom, the BA.2 variant was growing at ~0.11 per day (+12% per day) as a ratio to BA.1.
Weekly confirmed COVID-19 deaths Map of cumulative COVID-19 death rates by US state. [1]The CDC publishes official numbers of COVID-19 cases in the United States. The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2]
His lab has found that boosters improve immunity against omicron 20-fold. Everyone 5 and older are eligible to get one booster and people older than 50, or who are severely immunocompromised, are ...
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading faster than the Delta variant and is causing infections in people already vaccinated or who have recovered from the COVID-19 disease, the head ...
Pneumococcal pneumonia kills about 1 in 20 older adults infected with the bacteria, according to the CDC. Roughly 100 known strains of pneumococcus bacteria can also cause ear infections ...
[495] [500] Brazil was also heavily affected by the Delta and Omicron variants. [501] At the height of the outbreak in the spring of 2021, 3,000+ Brazilians were dying per day. [ 502 ] [ 503 ] Bolsonaro's loss to Lula da Silva in the 2022 presidential election is widely credited to the former's mishandling of the pandemic .
According to a 2020 study, nearly 1 million older adults are hospitalized for pneumonia every year. Over one-third of those hospitalized die within the next year, that study found.