Despite intensive public health efforts to grind the COVID-19 pandemic to a halt, the recent emergence of the highly transmissible, extensively drug-resistant and profoundly immune system-evading XBB.1.5 SARS-CoV-2 subvariant is putting the global community on edge. What is XBB.1.5?In the naming convention for SARS-CoV-2 lineages, the prefix “X” denotes a pedigree that arose through genetic...
Many Long Island and New York City residents are unwilling to get vaccinated or adjust their holiday plans amid a “tridemic” of Covid-19, the flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), results from a new poll suggest. Less than two-thirds of the poll respondents have received a flu shot or a Covid-19 booster shot this season....
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are increasing again as the very contagious BA.5 variant spreads across the country, with nearly 500 deaths reported each day. After 2 months of daily death numbers rarely climbing above 400, the average has recently grown to about 450 deaths per day, according to NPR. Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and intensive...
COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, and many have been a victim to it despite following all the SOPs and doing everything they could. Despite it being almost two years since the virus’s first outbreak in Wuhan, China; it is strange that many of us still do not have an idea as to how...
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