"Stealth omicron" variant found in Illinois | Crain's Chicago Business
The case was detected over the weekend in a Northwestern lab from a patient who was tested on Jan. 18.
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The case was detected over the weekend in a Northwestern lab from a patient who was tested on Jan. 18.
Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic across Illinois today:
The case was detected over the weekend in a Northwestern lab from a patient who was tested on Jan. 18.
The subvariant, which some people have referred to as “stealth omicron,” carries additional mutations that are thought to make it more transmissible.
Illinois logged another 6,664 COVID-19 cases on Monday – the lowest daily caseload in seven weeks. Hospitalizations and the number of deaths from the virus also dropped yet again. But that encouraging news was tempered a bit by a report of the first case of the Omicron subvariant in Illinois.