The United States seems to have hit a Covid 19 plateau, with more than 40,000 people hospitalized and more than 400 deaths a day consistently over th
The United States seems to have hit a Covid 19 plateau, with more than 40,000 people hospitalized and more than 400 deaths a day consistently over the past month or so, reported CNN. It’s a dramatic improvement from this Winter, there were four times as many hospitalizations and nearly six times as many deaths at the peak of the first Omicron wave, but still stubbornly high numbers. And there are big question marks around what might happen next, as the coronavirus’ evolution remains quite elusive 2½ years into the pandemic. “We’ve never really cracked that: why these surges go up and down, how long it stays up and how fast it comes down,” said Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research. “All these things are still somewhat of a mystery.” BA.5 remains the dominant subvariant in the US for now, causing most new cases as it has since the last week of June, reported CNN. BA.5 “has been very formidable because it’s so transmissible and has so much immune evasion,” Topol said.
But the plateau in hospitalizations is “encouraging” because it means the subvariant probably has worked its way through most of the hosts it can find. “Right now, the question is what comes as we descend from BA.5. It could take weeks,” said Topol. CDC ensemble forecasts predict stable trends in hospitalizations and deaths over the coming weeks, and experts agree that the worst of the wave has probably passed. But it’s hummed along at a high level because it continues to find people whose immunity from vaccination or infection has waned over time, and with children going back to school, a change in seasons and other variants on the horizon, it’s unclear when the plateau will drop, and by how much, as reported by CNN.
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In the last 24 hours 1,098 new cases of contagion and 2 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 1,000 in the last 24 hours, while there were 2 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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