As New Omicron Strains Overtake BA.5 In The U.S., Biden Administrations Publichealth Emergency May Extend Into Spring

The omicron BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 strains outnumbered the omicron BA.5 variant in the United States in the week ending November 12, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The data shows that the two variants, which are derivatives of BA.5, accounted for 44.1% of all cases reported that week, while BA.5 accounted for 29.7%. In the New York region, which includes New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for 59.9% of new infections, and BA accounted for 19% of new cases. 5. Events

The World Health Organization said that based on current data, BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are more infectious than previous variants, but are not likely to cause serious illness or death. This corresponds to the behavior of all new options that replace previous options. Experts still recommend that you be aware of vaccines and boosters to prevent complications from COVID.

The good news came from Moderna on Monday that its new promoter for COVID-19 produced a better antibody response than the company's original promoter in 2/3 clinical trials against BA.4 and BA.5 variants.

The modern model has two bivalent amplifiers, one of which is approved for use in the United States. The injection, mRNA-1273,222, produced a "super neutralizing antibody response" against BA.4 and BA.5 in nearly 500 clinical trial participants who had already been vaccinated and boosted.

Moderna also said that in research tests on 40 participants against its promoter, BQ.1.1, "the titers were approximately five times higher compared to ba.4/BA.5".

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration gave state officials no indication Friday that it intended to end the COVID-19 health emergency, which it says will last through at least January.

They will be notified 60 days before the health emergency is lifted, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The classification was renewed from October to January 11, indicating that the health emergency could extend into the spring.

The news is that known cases of COVID in the United States are increasing again for the first time in months. The daily rate of new cases on Sunday was 39,489, up 7% from the previous two weeks, according to a New York Times tracker.

Cases are increasing in 33 states, including Missouri, which saw a 200% increase from two weeks ago, and Utah, which saw a 77% increase.

In the United States, average enrollment rose 2% to 27,943, but some states saw larger increases. The number of hospitalizations in Colorado increased by 69% from the past two weeks, followed by Nevada, with an increase of 55%. Arizona, which increased by 49%; and Hawaii, where it's 42% higher.

On a more positive note, the average daily death toll in the US decreased by 10%, to 317.

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Other COVID-19 news you need to know:

• In southern China's Guangzhou region, 1.8 million people were ordered to stay home for virus tests on Saturday, and schools were closed in a major city in southwest China due to a surge in infections, the Associated Press reports. A total of 11,773 infections were reported across the country in the past 24 hours, including 10,351 asymptomatic people. China's numbers are small, but last week's increase calls into question the government's "Zero COVID" strategy, which aims to isolate every infected person.

• Many Southern California hospitals are beginning to use overflow storage outside emergency rooms to treat more patients with the flu and other respiratory illnesses, the Associated Press reports. The San Diego-Union Tribune reported Friday that tents have been set up at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Encinitas, UCSD Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla and Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa. This is due to an increase in flu symptoms in San Diego County emergency room patients. According to the county report, nine percent of those patients had flu symptoms last week, compared to 7 percent two weeks ago, which is a smaller increase in patients with symptoms of COVID-19.

• Germany is heading towards a spike in COVID-19 cases this winter Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on Friday criticized plans by four German states to relax quarantine rules for infected people, Reuters reported. "Then we will have a stronger wave than we feared, and we are on the verge of a more contagious version," he said. Lauterbach added on the sidelines of a parliamentary session that the regional administrations in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein do not have permission from the federal government to issue these rules.

Here's what the numbers say :

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 635.3 million on Monday, while the death toll topped 6.61 million, according to aggregate data from Johns Hopkins University.

The United States leads the world with 97.9 million infections and 1,074,485 deaths.

Tracking from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that 227.8 million people in the United States, or 68.6% of the population, are fully vaccinated, meaning they got their first shot.

So far, only 31.4 million Americans have received a recent COVID-19 batch, which targets both the original virus and the omicr variants, or 10.1% of the population.

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