Virus experts just published this warning on the new COVID variant

The new version of Omicron is likely to put pressure on cases in the United States.


COVID numbers are still falling regularly in the United States following the disturbing winter overvoltage of Omicron. According to disease control and prevention centers (CDC),the infections were down With more than 16% last week, while hospitalizations fell by more than 27%. But even when we appreciate some reprieve of coronavirus, other countries around the world are again struck by an increase in business and hospitalizations through a new COVID variant.

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The subvariant BA.2 - which is often called the Stealth Omicron variant - spread around the world recently and provoked figures in several European countries. According to a data analysis of the NBC data from Johns Hopkins University, nearly half of the European countries have livedIncreased new COVID cases last week. Finland increased by 84%, Switzerland had a 45% increase and u.k.k business. 31%.

But it may not even even the most important of the overvoltage of the new variant. Virus experts now warn that the BA.2 variant seems mainly to increase cases that produce symptoms. On March 18, the Zoe Covid Study Applicationreported that the U.K. There was an average of 258,155 new cases of daily symptomatic coronaviruses, 47% higher than the number of symptomatic infections reported the previous week.

"New daily symptomatic cases have rebounded and are rising," said Zoe Experts in the report. But this could be the result of a combined problem: BA.2 Increased cases while vaccines areWaning in protection against the covid infection and symptomatic disease.

According to a study of 13 March pre-printed on Medrxiv, mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna seem to beProvide similar protection Against the original Omicron original variant and its stealth subclasque, but their effectiveness of protection against symptomatic Covid falls after only two months of a third dose - and that the calendar corresponds to the increase in cases BA.2 .

"MRNA vaccines offer only moderate and short protection against sympathetic Omicron infections," writes the authors in their study. But they added that shots offer "robust protection against hospitalization and death due to OMICRON infections", especially after a booster.

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With that in mind, people in the United States should prepare for higher cases of symptomatic COVIDs soon, given recent trends in Europe. AsUnited States today reported we sawCase of coronavirus spike In Europe, just a few weeks before starting to get up to the American age at least five times in the last two years. "We learn a lot about the next wave that will happen to the US.S."Eric Topol, Director of the Translational Research Institute Scripps in La Jolla, California, told the publication of news. "It's going to happen. It's inevitable."AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

According to the CDC, BA.2's prevalence increases slowly in our country, it is estimated at about 23% of new infections. TOP HOUSE WHITE COVID advisorAnthony Fauci, MD, says thatThe growing prevalence BA.2 is likely to cause an increase in coronavirus cases in the United States over the next month.

"I will expect us to see a rise in business here in the United States. In the coming weeks, it will become more dominant [than Omicron]," he told Abc-affiliate 10News to San Diego, California, March 16th. adding that the subpower is even "more likely to transmit" than the original version of the variant.

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