No Standard For Tracking Employees With COVID At SW FL Hospitals – Naples Daily News

AbstractSARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages, first detected in South Africa, have changes relative to Omicron BA.1 including substitutions in the spike receptor binding domain. Here we isolated live BA.4 and BA.5 viruses and measured BA.4/BA.5 neutralization elicited by BA.1 infection either in the absence or presence of previous...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Release Date: Aug. 11, 2022 Contact: APH PIO        Email AUSTIN, Texas – The COVID-19 omicron variant is responsible for the pandemic’s largest surge yet, leaving Austin Public Health (APH) Epidemiology and IT Units with thousands of case reports to cross-check. APH staff explored ways to automate the...

The closely monitored Boston-area COVID wastewater data has plunged to its lowest level since the spring, an encouraging sign amid the BA.5 variant as state health officials on Thursday reported 8,950 virus cases from the last week. The north-of-Boston daily average for COVID sewage samples has now dropped to 451...

Weekly / August 12, 2022 / 71(32);1029–1031 Eric J. Shircliff, PhD1; Eli S. Rosenberg, PhD1,2; Lauren M. Collens, MPA1; Dina Hoefer, PhD1; Emily Lutterloh, MD1,2; Benjamin J. Silk, PhD3; Amber K. Winn, MPH3; Travis T. O’Donnell1 (View author affiliations) View suggested citation Altmetric: Citations: Views: Views equals page views plus...

Moderna CEO touts plan for triple combo respiratory shot: report  FiercePharma

When the World Health Organization announced in May 2021 that it would start using letters of the Greek alphabet to designate Covid-19 variants of interest and concern, it hoped that the new labeling system would be "simple, easy to say, and remember."Over a year later, WHO's Covid-19 naming has a...