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We could be ‘in trouble’ this fall if many people remain unvaccinated and new variants emerge that are highly transmissible and cause more severe illness, says Fauci.
FOREIGN visitors entering the US will be denied entry unless they have been fully vaccinated as part of Joe Biden's plan to reopen international trave
A Doomsday COVID Variant Worse Than Delta and Lambda May Be Coming, Scientists Say Photo Illustration by Newsweek Scientists keep underestimating the coronavirus. In the beginning of the pandemic, they said mutated versions of the virus wouldn't be much of a problem—until the more-infectious Alpha caused a spike in cases last fall. Then Beta made young people sicker and Gamma reinfected those who'd already recovered from COVID-19. Still, by March, as the winter surge in the U.S. receded, some epidemiologists were cautiously optimistic that the rapid vaccine rollout would soon tame the varia...
Last Wednesday, as California Governor Gavin Newsom gave one of his regular Covid-19 updates, he expressed surprise at “something not a lot of folks are paying attention to.” That “something” is the growth of the so-called West Coast variant of Covid-19. Newsom and his surrogates have, to their credit, regularly given updates on the growth […]
Replies(93) Those traveling from the Southland may have spurred the new mutant's rapid rate of spread, according to new research published Friday in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association. (Shutterstock) LOS ANGELES, CA — As the world continues to navigate a delicate balance between coronavirus vaccinations and variants, one particular strain homegrown in Southern California appears to have made its way around the world in a short time — and holiday travel may be to blame, according to researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. To date, the Southlan...