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COVID-19: First Spread In US Due To New Sub-Variants Of 'Stealth Omicron' Reported In NY COVID-19: First Spread In US Due To New Sub-Variants Of 'Stealth Omicron' Reported In NY
Covid-19: First Spread In US Due To New Sub-Variants Of 'Stealth Omicron' Reported In NY Two new sub-variants of BA.2. or the so-called COVID-19 "Stealth Omicron" strain, could be considerably more contagious, say health officials who are reporting a surge in cases in Central New York State,  the first such outbreak in the nation. The New York State Department of Health on Wednesday, April 13 announced the emergence of the two Omicron sub-variants: BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1.  BA.2 now accounts for more than 50 percent of COVID cases nationally and 80.6 percent in New York.  The sub-variants have been estimated to have a 23- to 27-percent growth advantage above …

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by Joe Lombardi
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Report: Cuomo Aides' Effort To Keep Nursing Home Deaths Secret Greater Than Previously Known Report: Cuomo Aides' Effort To Keep Nursing Home Deaths Secret Greater Than Previously Known
Report: Cuomo Aides' Effort To Keep Nursing Home Deaths Secret Greater Than Previously Known New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration took another hit as a new report found that aides may have obscured the true COVID-19 death toll in the state’s nursing homes for months longer than initially believed. The New York Times is now reporting that aides meticulously schemed for months to conceal the number of virus-related fatalities that were being counted in nursing homes, with the scan lasting at least five months. According to the report, the effort to hide the true numbers included halting the publication of a scientific paper, which included the true tally, and the sending of at…

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by Zak Failla
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COVID-19: Number Of Children Hospitalized In NYS With Mysterious Shock-Like Illness Jumps To 64 COVID-19: Number Of Children Hospitalized In NYS With Mysterious Shock-Like Illness Jumps To 64
Covid-19: Number Of Children Hospitalized In NYS With Mysterious Shock-Like Illness Jumps To 64 A total of 64 children have now been hospitalized in New York State with a rare, shock-like, life-threatening inflammatory syndrome potentially associated with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), health officials said. That new number reported Wednesday, May 6 has increased from a total of 15 a day earlier. Those 15 cases were all in New York City. The newly reported 64 cases are statewide. The mysterious disease, first reported in the United Kingdom and other European countries nearly two weeks ago, is multi-system inflammatory syndrome. Symptoms have been "characterized by persistent fever …

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by Joe Lombardi