Official Covid 19 case metrics severely undercount the true number of infections, leaving the United States with a critical blind spot as the most tr
Official Covid 19 case metrics severely undercount the true number of infections, leaving the United States with a critical blind spot as the most transmissible coronavirus variant yet takes hold, reported CNN. The Omicron offshoot BA.5 became the dominant variant in the US last week, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the subvariant carries key mutations that help it escape antibodies generated by vaccines and prior infection, aiding its rapid spread. With that will come “escalating numbers of cases and more hospitalizations,” Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, said on CNNi Monday.
Covid 19 cases have been undercounted to some degree throughout the pandemic for reasons including a lack of available tests at some points and asymptomatic cases that may have been missed. But as people increasingly rely on rapid at-home tests, and as attitudes toward the pandemic shift overall, the US hasn’t landed on a reliable way to track transmission levels. An estimate from the Institute for Health Metrics, a research center at the University of Washington, suggests that actual infection numbers in the first week of July have been about seven times higher than reported cases, which have averaged about 107,000 each day over the past two weeks, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Now that BA.5 is here, “we know that there is going to be a wave in the fall, there’s almost no doubt about that, if not before,” said Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist and chief science officer at telehealth company eMed, as reported by CNN.
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In the last 24 hours 233 new cases of contagion and 0 deaths caused by Covid 19 were reported by State and Health Authorities. Contagion is being watched in Guanajuato and cases of contagion reported are over 200 in the last 24 hours, while there were 0 deaths reported. Authorities maintain the color of activities in the GREEN easing restrictions on activities, both leisure and work.
State Health Authorities insist that Guanajuato should maintain health protection.
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