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COVID-19: Fast-Spreading JN.1 Variant Now Accounts For 86 Percent Of US Cases COVID-19: Fast-Spreading JN.1 Variant Now Accounts For 86 Percent Of US Cases
Covid-19: Fast-Spreading JN.1 Variant Now Accounts For 86 Percent Of US Cases There's a new dominant variant of COVID-19 in the United States, and it's way ahead of the rest of the pack. JN. 1, a highly contagious off-shoot of the Omicron strain, now makes up around 86 percent of COVID cases in the United States after accounting for less than 5 percent of infections nationally in early November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. It's also the most dominant across the globe. JN.1 cases in the US have doubled over the last month.  In late December, it caused 44 percent of cases in the US, after making up around 22 percent of inf…

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COVID-19: Cases Of Highly Mutated Pirola Strain Triple In 2 Weeks COVID-19: Cases Of Highly Mutated Pirola Strain Triple In 2 Weeks
Covid-19: Cases Of Highly Mutated Pirola Strain Triple In 2 Weeks Nationwide cases of the so-called COVID-19 Pirola subvariant have tripled in two weeks. The strain officially known as BA.2.86 has been particularly prominent in New York.  It now makes up 9 percent of COVID cases in the US, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). World Health Organization (WHO) authorities said they consider BA.2.86 to be part of the Omicron variant family, but that could change if the strain spreads more widely even though Pirola's 30 mutations are from the BA.2 lineage, which was the dominant Omicron strain …

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COVID-19: Symptoms Now Number 11; Here's Latest Rundown From CDC COVID-19: Symptoms Now Number 11; Here's Latest Rundown From CDC
Covid-19: Symptoms Now Number 11; Here's Latest Rundown From CDC When COVID-19 cases first were identified in the United States in March 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) listed just three symptoms for the novel coronavirus: Fever Cough Shortness of breath Now, nearly five years later, the virus remains an everyday part of American life, with about 1,000 deaths from the disease nationwide each week. As COVID has evolved, mainly from the highly contagious Omicron strain and several of its subvariants, the CDC's updated list of symptoms for the virus now numbers 11. They are: Fever or chills Cough Shortness of breath or difficu…

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COVID-19: CDC Issues Risk Assessment On New Pirola Variant As Hospitalizations Increase 21.6% COVID-19: CDC Issues Risk Assessment On New Pirola Variant As Hospitalizations Increase 21.6%
Covid-19: CDC Issues Risk Assessment On New Pirola Variant As Hospitalizations Increase 21.6% COVID-19 hospitalizations saw a 21.6 percent jump in one week according to the latest data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has just released new information on a brand-new highly mutated variant. New increases are expected for the next month, the agency is now projecting. The news comes as the CDC and World Health Organization (WHO) are monitoring the newly identified BA.2.86 strain, now known as Pirola, which has around 30 mutations. The second figure above shows the number of daily COVID hospitalizations in the US each day from Thursday, June 13 th…

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COVID-19: First US Case Of Pirola Variant With 30 Mutations Confirmed COVID-19: First US Case Of Pirola Variant With 30 Mutations Confirmed
Covid-19: First US Case Of Pirola Variant With 30 Mutations Confirmed The first case of the newly identified COVID-19 variant with 30 mutations has been identified in the United States. The World Health Organization (WHO) upgraded BA.2.86 to a “variant under monitoring," citing the "large number of mutations it carries." BA.2.86, which has now been nicknamed "Pirola," was first detected in Israel, and cases have also been identified in the United Kingdom and Denmark. The initial case in the US has been detected in Michigan. The patient, an older person with mild symptoms, is from Washtenaw County, the Michigan Department of Health and Hu…

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COVID-19: Here Are Symptoms For New Eris Subvariant Now Making Up Most US Cases COVID-19: Here Are Symptoms For New Eris Subvariant Now Making Up Most US Cases
Covid-19: Here Are Symptoms For New Eris Subvariant Now Making Up Most US Cases A rundown of symptoms for a new highly-transmissible COVID-19 subvariant has emerged as the number of hospitalizations in the United States has climbed again according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There were 10,320 hospitalizations for the week ending Saturday, Aug. 5, an increase of 14.3 percent from the 9,026 the week earlier. With testing for the virus now at a low level, hospitalizations are the key metric for determining upticks in cases. The new subvariant known as Eris, whose official name is EG.5, is now causing most cases nationwide, just …

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COVID-19: Some Nassau County Districts Switch To Remote Learning COVID-19: Some Nassau County Districts Switch To Remote Learning
Covid-19: Some Nassau County Districts Switch To Remote Learning Some Long Island school districts will start the calendar year remotely due to an increase COVID-19 cases amid the emergence of the Omicron strain. The Freeport and Hicksville public school districts have shifted to remote learning for Monday, Jan. 3 through Friday, Jan. 7. The Freeport School District said the move was "In an abundance of caution, due to the increase of positivity rates on Long Island along with the potential of staffing impact." Hicksville School Superintendent Marianne Litzman said, "During the last two days, the number of positive COVID cases reported to the district b…

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