Ohio COVID-19 cases are up for the seventh straight week, and more than double the number at the same time last year
The number of patients in Ohio hospitals with COVID-19 is up, with the state health department reporting 124 new patients in the last week with the virus, up from 34 the week of June 6 and only 53 at the same time last year.CLEVELAND, Ohio — The virus just keeps on mutating. Offspring of the troublesome omicron variant are causing another spike in COVID-19 cases.
What are the new variants causing the summer surge in COVID-19, and do they make people sicker? With the summer travel season underway, should everyone wear masks on planes? In April, a group of new virus strains known as the FLiRT variants began to spread, followed in June by a variant known as LB.1.The LB.1 strain is similar to the FLiRT variants but with an additional mutation.
The variants cause mild disease, possibly because immunity is stronger overall due to immunization and infections of prior COVID-19 variants,” Singam said. Current treatments should still be effective.Q: Since 2020, it seems as if COVID-19 peaks in the winter and summer. Do researchers think COVID-19 is seasonal?
However, the influenza virus doesn’t peak in summer. “Therefore, the COVID-19 virus could be an overall hardier virus as well,” Singam said.Yes, there will be a new vaccines for COVID-19 and flu this fall. Everyone 6 months of age and older should receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine and flu shot this fall. This is similar to last year’s recommendation.
The COVID-19 vaccines for the 2024-2025 season target the JN.1 variant, which is the parent strain of many of the currently circulating variants. The“We can’t predict which variants are going to emerge over the coming months,” Dr. Melida Wharton of the CDC said during a“It may very well not be any of the ones that we’re talking about today, but they’re likely to be related to JN.1. So having a vaccine that’s the trunk of the tree rather than the branches makes sense to me.
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