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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave The United States is in the throes of another covid-19 uptick, cementing a pattern of the virus surging around the holidays as doctors and public health officials brace for greater transmission after Americans return to school and work this week.
Patrick Sison/AP/File CDC data estimates show that JN.1 is quickly spreading across the country and is now the leading variant causing almost half of infections. CNN — The Omicron coronavirus subvariant JN.1 now makes up 44.2% of Covid-19 cases in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A new variant of Covid-19 is spreading rapidly across the US this holiday season, even as Americans’ interest in getting vaccinated has faded. JN. 1, a sub-variant of Omicron that has an additional mutation […]
The new COVID-19 variant that scientists call JN.1 now makes up about 44.1% of COVID-19 cases across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Friday, marking another week of the fast-spreading variant’s steep rise in the U.S. The increase is more than two times larger than the 21.3% that the CDC now […]
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CNN — Two teams of US scientists have completed lab experiments testing the antibodies from vaccinated and infected Americans to see how well they might be able to fend off currently circulating variants of the virus that causes Covid-19, including the highly mutated BA.2.86. Their results match up almost exactly, and the news – at […]
A gene variant found almost exclusively in the genomes of people of African ancestry increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to an international study of nearly 198,000 participants with this genetic background. Published in The Lancet Neurology, the study results suggest the risk may be linked to a variant in the gene encoding […]
News Release Wednesday, August 23, 2023 NIH-supported, international study underscores importance of research of diverse populations. A gene variant found almost exclusively in the genomes of people of African ancestry increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to an international study of nearly 198,000 participants with this genetic background. Published in The Lancet […]
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/TNS/Getty Images A new highly mutated coronavirus variant, BA.2.86, has been identified in wastewater in the United States. CNN — Preliminary testing of wastewater in the United States has detected the new highly mutated coronavirus variant BA.2.86, according to a
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