These update posts are getting shorter as time goes on, but we’re still learning about this variant! News items from this week include: Omicron now causing almost 100% of cases in the U.S., Northeast hotspots seem to be peaking, and more.
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Here are six other COVID-19 news items from the past week that didn’t quite warrant full posts. Including: CDC isolation guidance, a new reporting recipe, a variant that you should not freak out about, and more.
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As the Omicron surge continues, we are still learning more about this variant. Here are the major updates from this week, including: Omicron now causing over 90% of U.S. cases, hospitals becoming overwhelmed, possible peaks, and more.
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It’s now been over a month since Omicron arrived in the U.S., and the variant’s impact is clear: January is about to be nasty. Here are the major updates from this week, ranging from an outdoor superspreader event to protection from vaccines.
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The majority of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are now caused by Omicron, and a massive surge is underway. But there’s good news: the variant continues to appear less likely to cause severe disease than past coronavirus strains, and South Africa’s wave may have already peaked.
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WWe keep learning about this dangerous variant as it spreads through the U.S. and the world. A few major updates from this week include Omicron’s enormous potential for transmission and the U.S.’s lack of preparedness.
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We continue to learn more about this new variant as it spreads rapidly across the world, though much of the data are still preliminary. Here are a few major updates, including how vaccines fare against Omicron, its rapid spread, and more.
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There is still a lot we don’t know about the Omicron variant, first identified in Botswana and South Africa in late November. Still, we’ve learned a few new things in the last week. Here’s a quick roundup.
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On Thanksgiving, my Twitter feed was dominated not by food photos, but by news of a novel coronavirus variant identified in South Africa earlier this week. While the variant—now called Omicron, or B.1.1.529—likely didn’t originate in South Africa, data from the country’s comprehensive surveillance system provided enough evidence to suggest that this variant could be more contagious than Delta, as well as potentially more able to evade human immune systems.
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A couple of weeks ago, I received a reader question from a friend of mine who recently got engaged! He and his fiancée are planning a wedding in summer 2023, and he asked me: “How likely do you think it is that (1) the COVID-19 pandemic remains a serious danger to our safety in the summer of 2023 and (2) the government still has the energy to keep enforcing COVID-19 restrictions?”
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