‘Knocked All Our Assumptions for a Loop’: What We Heard This Week
“We’d all like it to be true. There were similar conjectures before the Delta variant appeared and knocked all our assumptions for a loop.” — Stephen Morse, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center, on predictions that we’re all but done with the pandemic of the century. “To see a movie in the theater was quite […]
COVID Hospitalizations Soared With Delta
COVID-19 patients infected with the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) were more likely to need a higher level of care compared with those with the Alpha variant (B.1.1.7), British researchers found. Patients infected with Delta were more than twice as likely to be admitted to the hospital within 14 days after PCR testing versus those with the […]
What’s This About Delta Being 1,000 Times More Infectious?
You’ve been hearing it a lot lately: the Delta variant is 1,000 times more infectious than the original version of SARS-CoV-2. So where does that figure come from? It’s from a study by the Guangdong CDC in China — published earlier this month as a preprint on both medRxiv and virological.org — that experts are […]
Could COVID Shots in Secret Lure Holdouts?
In COVID-19 hot spots across the country where the Delta variant is thriving and vaccine hesitancy is high, hospitals have continued to urge for more people to get vaccinated. In the case of Ozarks Healthcare, based in West Plains, Mo., the health system recently issued an impassioned plea for people to get vaccinated, even if […]
What The Lambda COVID-19 Variant Means For Us Right Now
The delta variant first identified in India is spreading widely in the United States, accounting for more than half of all new COVID-19 infections. But even as it becomes the dominant strain here, threatening to increase new infections among unvaccinated individuals, a new variant, called the lambda variant, or C.37, has also caught public health […]
Delta Variant Now Dominant Strain In The U.S., CDC Estimates
The delta variant of the coronavirus is likely the most common strain of COVID-19 in the United States, according to estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC estimated that 51.7% of new cases for the two-week period ending July 3 were linked to the delta strain while 28.7% of new cases […]
‘Delta Plus’ COVID Variant a New Concern – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Coronavirus News FRIDAY, June 25, 2021 India, already hit hard by the Delta variant of COVID-19, has labeled a closely related new variant — dubbed “Delta Plus” — as a “variant of concern.” But some epidemiologists in India and abroad say there’s just not enough data yet to warrant broader cautions about […]
Dangerous Delta COVID-19 Variant Infecting Vaccinated Adults In Israel
In an alarming new development, the particularly transmissible delta variant of COVID-19 has infected some fully vaccinated adults in Israel, officials there have reported. Of more than 100 daily cases amid an outbreak of the delta variant, half were children younger than 16., The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Most of them hadn’t yet been […]