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During the Delta spike of the summer of 2021, nationwide hospitalizations for COVID-19 topped 100,000. A year later, the Omicron wave hospitalized 16,000 people across the country. Today’s ...
Here’s what to know about the new COVID-19 vaccine coming this fall, and the CDC’s updated guidelines on COVID shots for 2024 and 2025.
The Delta variant (B.1.617.2) was [3] [4] a variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It was first detected in India on 5 October 2020. The Delta variant was named on 31 May 2021 and had spread to over 179 countries by 22 November 2021.
COVID-19 is expected to circulate indefinitely, but as of 2024, experts were uncertain as to whether it was still a pandemic or had become endemic. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Pandemics and their ends are not well-defined, and whether or not one has ended differs according to the definition used.
On July 27, based on updated information for fully vaccinated people that new evidence on the Delta variant had provided, CDC added a recommendation for those people to wear a mask in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high transmission. CDC also made other recommendations based on this information. [52]
The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned a Greek alphabet of variants - a naming system used by the World Health Organization to track concerning new mutations of the virus that ...
The United States will not lift any existing travel restrictions "at this point" due to concerns over the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant and the rising number of U.S. coronavirus ...
The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 17 November 2019. [2]