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Highly Infectious BA.4 and BA.5 Subvariants Increasing COVID Cases in San Diego County
The BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants continue to drive the county’s case and hospitalization numbers, keeping San Diego County in the “high” COVID-19 activity level.
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COVID Q&A: Who's Spreading It? Should We be Masking? Your Questions Answered
We put a call out to San Diegans for COVID-related questions at the top of their mind, and then shared them with a Sharp Health doctor.
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COVID Q&A: Who's Spreading It? Should We be Masking? Your Questions Answered
We posted a call-out for Instagram users to send in questions they have about the latest COVID-19 subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5.
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BA.2.75 Omicron Variant is Surging. Here's What to Know
The latest mutation, which is spreading in India, has the ability to evade immunity from vaccines and prior infections, reports NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry.
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Got COVID More Than Once? Researchers Find New Omicron Subvariants Causing Reinfections
“This is what viruses do, the job of a virus is to go viral.”
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COVID Infections and Re-Infections Rising
New omicron subvariants are responsible for the latest spike in cases, reports NBC 7’s Melissa Adan.
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Pfizer Says Tweaked COVID-19 Shots Boost Omicron Protection
Pfizer says tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and boosts protection.
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Omicron Cases Spike in Coachella Valley After Music Festival
Coachella was mostly outdoors, but the festival did not require masks or vaccination.
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Justice Department to Appeal Lift In Travel Face Mask Rule
The Justice Department said Wednesday that it would be appealing a ruling which lifted the travel face mask mandate, after the CDC determined masks continue to be necessary for the public good.
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What is Omicron BA.2?
Omicron BA.2, also known as “stealth omicron,” has been the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the U.S. since March 2022.
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CDC Extends Travel Mask Requirement by 2 Weeks
The CDC announced Wednesday that it was extending the national mask requirement for public transportation systems through May 3 as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases in parts of the country.
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Appearance of ‘Son of Omicron' in San Diego Closely Watched By Local Infectious-Disease Experts
The BA.2 omicron subvariant is more contagious and can re-infect people, but isn’t more virulent, studies find.
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‘Son of Omicron' Subvariant Confirmed in 100-Plus Cases in San Diego
The new variant BA.2 is more infectious than omicron but it is less deadly, UC San Diego’s chief of infectious diseases told NBC 7’s Melissa Adan
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CDC Outlines Easing of Mask Guidance
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention outlined new measures for communities where COVID cases are dropping on Friday, meaning healthy people in these areas can take a break from wearing masks
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Estimated 73% of US Now Immune to Omicron: Is That Enough?
The omicron wave that assaulted the United States this winter also bolstered its defenses, leaving enough protection against the coronavirus that future spikes will likely require much less — if any — dramatic disruption to society.
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Is Now the Time to Roll Back Mask Mandates?
“When we reduce these measures, we increase our vulnerability of having transmission continue to go high,” says Jessica Malaty Rivera, an epidemiologist at the Pandemic Prevention Institute. She joined LX News to talk about mask restrictions and what loosening them could mean for the nation.
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Can You Get Long COVID After an Infection With Omicron?
Experts say it’s too early to know whether people infected with the omicron variant will develop long COVID
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Scripps Heath Predicting COVID Hospitalizations, Deaths Will Soon Fall
Predictive modeling suggests that the omicron surge is receding, reports NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar.
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Scripps Health Predicts End of Omicron Hospitalization Surge by Early March
Modeling by Scripps Health predicts that the current surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations should wind down by early March, with a slow decrease in patient volume driven by the Omicron variant of the virus over the coming weeks, the health system said Tuesday.
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After Omicron Spike, Doctor Says ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel' is Coming
The highly infectious Omicron variant of COVID-19 was far worse than expected, says NBC News medical contributor Dr. John Torres. Despite symptoms being less severe, the variant was so infectious that absolute numbers of cases still skyrocketed and thus hospitals were overwhelmed. But Torres and health officials are hopeful there will be a decline in hospitalizations and deaths in a...