Mask policies return in US as respiratory viruses threaten to strain hospitals Covid, flu and RSV rates creep up as vaccination rates for all three remain low, worrying healthcare providers The Guardian - US · Jan 15, 2024
New, highly mutated COVID variants ‘Pirola’ BA.2.86 and JN.1 may cause more severe disease, new studies suggest “We cannot ignore the evidence” that Omicron may be evolving into a more severe form of itself, one researcher told Fortune. Fortune · Jan 8, 2024
Two new Covid subvariants have taken over in the US “BA.5 is essentially declining quickly, probably soon to be gone,” says the director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2022
Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity and might possibly cause more serious disease The Independent UK · May 26, 2022