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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 ...
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.
By July 2024, a descendant of KP.2 with an extra amino acid change in the spike protein, Q493E, was given the names KP.3 and, informally, 'FLuQE,' and became a major variant in New South Wales during the Australian winter. Initial research suggested that the Q493E change could help KP.3 be more effective at binding to human cells than KP.2.
With more Americans traveling for summer vacations and gathering indoors during scorching heat waves, COVID-19 infections are again on the rise.
COVID-19 is still highly contagious, but the severity of the symptoms have lessened for most people because of the differences in the variants and the immunity people have built up by vaccination ...
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.
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.
[b] The COVID-19 pandemic also saw the emergence of misinformation and conspiracy theories, [39] and highlighted weaknesses in the U.S. public health system. [17] [40] [41] In the United States, there have been 103,436,829 [3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,215,005 [3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per ...