China ended the last week of 2021 with the highest number of local cases of coronavirus in any seven-day period since it controlled the country’s first epidemic nearly two years ago, despite having some of the world’s strictest measures against COVID-19. The National Health Commission on Saturday reported 175 new community infections with confirmed clinical […]
Tag: Omicron
Despite omicron, business activity in the US rebounded at Christmas
Updated on 01/01/2022 02:24 am Americans didn’t let the omicron variant stop them from going out for last-minute Christmas shopping and entertainment. Activity from businesses, including restaurants and retail stores, increased 4.8% in the week leading up to Christmas compared to the beginning of the month, according to figures from SafeGraph, which tracks geolocation data […]
Ómicron grows in Latin America, countries discard quarantines
Long lines at testing centers, cancellation of New Year’s parties and the reappearance of the open-air mask account for the impact of the omicron variant in Latin America, where more and more countries surpass their record of new daily infections since the beginning of the pandemic. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) warned this week […]
COVID-19: omicron bitter the end of the year to the US economy
Canceled Christmas shows, exhortations to avoid cruises, planes that cannot take off: the omicron variant of coronavirus multiplied the problems for the United States economy and could contribute to a shortage of workers and even higher prices in the country. “We begin to see the first signs of the impact of omicron on the economy”, […]
Risk of hospitalization for omicron variant of COVID-19 is around a third compared to delta
Updated on 12/31/2021 12:36 pm The risk of hospitalization with the omicron variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus is approximately one third that of delta, according to a British analysis of more than one million cases of infections with both mutations in recent weeks. The data, published by the UK Health Safety Agency, also showed that […]
U.S. to authorize booster vaccine for teens on Monday
Updated on 12/31/2021 05:47 am U.S. regulators plan to authorize Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 booster vaccine for younger teens on Monday, expanding access at a time when researchers have found that an additional dose of vaccine provides better protection against the widely circulated omicron variant. The Food and Drug Administration (FDAis preparing to grant an emergency […]
T cells to the rescue! According to studies, omicron variant combat
Updated on 12/31/2021 02:14 am An unknown part of the immune system appears to protect against severe COVID caused by the omicron variant even as antibodies decline, helping to explain why a record wave of infections has not overwhelmed hospitals so far. Vaccination boosted T cells – the body’s weapon against virus-infected cells – enough […]
The world faces the New Year with more than a million cases daily
Millions of people around the world were preparing on Thursday for a celebration of New Year drastically limited by the blazing spread of the COVID-19, which in the week of December 23 to 29 surpassed the symbolic milestone of one million daily infections. In the last seven days, an average of 1,045,000 infections were detected […]
Experts warn that omicron “storm” will hit the US in January
Health experts in the United States have warned their compatriots that the growing wave of COVID-19 cases, led by the omicron variant, threatens to cause major disruption in their lives, from schools to shopping, and urged them to prepare now for a difficult month. For the second day in a row, the United States recorded […]
More than a month of omicron: what is expected of the evolution of this variant?
Ómicron is highly transmissible and it is because it has accumulated a very high number, greater than other times, of mutations and a combination of these not seen until now. What is expected of the evolution of this variant? Does SARS-CoV-2 behave like other coronaviruses? Is the pandemic going to become endemic? First identified as […]