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BA.5 Omicron Is Winning The Covid Variant Battle In The U.S., Especially In The Southwest
The BA.5 Omicron variant, first identified in South Africa on February 26, now seems to have an edge in the competition for dominance across the United States.
Three Covid variants are currently on the rise as the country experiences a summer surge in cases. All are members of the Omicron family. While BA.5 still only…
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By Tom Tapp
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New South African Covid Variants, Omicron BA.4 And BA.5, Found In U.S. For First Time; May Be More Transmissible Than BA.2
“My name is Trevor Noah. I'm really honored to be here, honestly,” said the Daily Show host at this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. “You could've picked any comedian, you could've invited anyone but you went with the South African variant. Very on theme.”
Likely even more on-theme than Noah knew.
On…
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By Tom Tapp
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Los Angeles BA.2 Covid Cases Jump 130% In One Week As More Transmissible Omicron Variant Spreads Across U.S.
Los Angeles County Public Health officials announced today that the county of 10 million people had finally begun to experience a trend that has already hit many parts of the United States: a rapid rise in the number of Covid cases attributed to the more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant.
Per L.A. County:
Although…
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By Tom Tapp
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Omicron BA.2 Variant Now More Than Half Of All New Covid Cases Across Large Swath In U.S., Per CDC
Numbers updated this morning by the CDC indicate that the percentage of new Covid cases across the United States tied to the even more transmissible BA.2 variant has jumped from 23% in early March to 35% this week. On the positive side, that means the rate of increase has slowed from two 100% jumps over the previous…
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By Tom Tapp
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U.S. Tops 900,000 Covid Deaths, Could See Another 40,000 Lives Lost In Next 2 Weeks
On February 29, 2020 the United States recorded its first death connected to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. At the time, estimates of the numbers of deaths the newly-identified virus might cause were all over the map. Some said it was no worse than the seasonal flu which, from 2017-2018 had caused 51,000…
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By Tom Tapp
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U.S. Daily Cases Top 1 Million Again, Second-Highest 24-Hour Total Ever, Even As Hospitalizations, Test Positivity Trend Down
While the 7-day average of new Covid cases in the U.S. is trending down, the daily number of new cases topped 1 million for only the second time in the 733 days since the first infection was reported stateside. Monday case numbers posted today by the CDC and Johns Hopkins University came in at 1,140,580 and 1,007,511…
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By Tom Tapp
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New Omicron Offshoot BA.2 Arrives In U.S. After Spreading In U.K., Denmark, India
Just as the Omicron wave may have broken across the U.S. comes word of another version of the more transmissible variant, dubbed BA.2. It’s been nicknamed by some “stealth Omicron” because it seems to evade identification better than its predecessor.
While other new variants that seemed worrisome — like Mu or Lambda…
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By Tom Tapp
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Record-Breaking 1.4 Million New Daily Covid Cases In U.S.; Hospitalizations, Test Positivity Also Hit All-Time Highs
Driven by the Omicron variant, the U.S. saw a record number of new cases, hospitalizations and hit an all-time high test positivity rate today.
Johns Hopkins University reported 1,483,656 new daily cases in the country on Tuesday. That’s 300,000-plus cases above the previous high of 1,044,970 cases seen on January 3…
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By Tom Tapp
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Daily U.S. Covid Cases Hit All-Time High As Omicron Fuels Winter Wave Of Virus
On Tuesday, the United States recorded 512,553 daily new cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. That is, by far, the single highest daily case number recorded during the entire Covid-19 pandemic. University data indicates that the previous high was 294,015 on January 8, 2021.
One mitigating factor is the…
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By Tom Tapp
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Omicron Now Dominant U.S. Covid Variant; Accounts For 73% Of Cases Less Than 3 Weeks After Discovery
U.S. Centers for Disease Control data posted today shows the Omicron variant is now by far the most dominant strain of Covid in the nation. It took less than three weeks.
The stunning development demonstrates the increased transmissibility of Omicron, which quickly spread across South Africa and the globe, hitting…
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By Tom Tapp
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U.S. Covid Death Toll Tops 800,000 As Omicron Variant Makes Inroads Into Delta’s Dominance
One day after the United States recorded its 50 millionth case of Covid-19, the Johns Hopkins University count of virus-related deaths in the country topped 800,000. That’s larger than the population of Seattle, Detroit or Denver, according to census data.
On October 1 of this year, the nation crossed the 700,000…
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By Tom Tapp
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U.S. Covid Cases Cross 50 Million Mark As Infections Surge Once Again
Johns Hopkins University reported late Monday that the United States had seen more than 50 million Covid-19 infections since the first confirmed cases stateside in January 2020. That’s more than the total population of countries like Spain, Argentina and Poland. According to the New York Times, it’s larger than the…
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