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In August 2021, Public Health England (PHE) reported secondary attack rate in household contacts of non-travel or unknown cases for Delta to be 10.8% vis-à-vis 10.2% for the Alpha variant; [10] the case fatality rate for those 386,835 people with Delta is 0.3%, where 46% of the cases and 6% of the deaths are unvaccinated and below 50 years old ...
Pneumococcal pneumonia kills about 1 in 20 older adults infected with the bacteria, according to the CDC. ... The CDC reported that KP.3.1.1 was the dominant COVID-19 variant circulating the U.S ...
The Delta variant, also known as B.1.617.2, G/452R.V3, 21A [75] or 21A/S:478K, [97] was a globally dominant variant that spread to at least 185 countries. [137] It was first discovered in India . Descendant of lineage B.1.617, which also includes the Kappa variant under investigation, it was first discovered in October 2020 and has since spread ...
It is the most common bacterial pneumonia found in adults, the most common type of community-acquired pneumonia, and one of the common types of pneumococcal infection. The estimated number of Americans with pneumococcal pneumonia is 900,000 annually, with almost 400,000 cases hospitalized and fatalities accounting for 5-7% of these cases. [2]
The discovery of the Omicron coronavirus variant has sparked basic questions for people who are exhausted by quarantines and mitigation efforts brought about by Delta and the earlier variants. Dr.
The Delta variant is more transmissible than the SARS-CoV-2 ancestral strain as well as the viruses that cause MERS, SARS, Ebola, the common cold, the seasonal flu and smallpox, the report said.
In December 2019, a pneumonia outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. [119] On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, [ 120 ] which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization, [ 121 ] [ 122 ] [ 123 ] later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses .
Pneumococcal infection is an infection caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. [1]S. pneumoniae is a common member of the bacterial flora colonizing the nose and throat of 5–10% of healthy adults and 20–40% of healthy children. [2]