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News Articles: omicron

Print a poster version of this comic to hang up on your fridge or give away to friends. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ggzz9qS2c6rQCXg3VCUo9iip3i1XtWG/view?usp=sharing">Download the poster here.</a>

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  • Global Health

Popular COVID FAQs in 2022: Outdoor risks, boosters, 1-way masking, faint test lines

Let's revisit some of 2022's still relevant queries. Like: Does one-way masking help? What's the risk of outdoor transmission? What's up with faint lines on tests?

December 20, 2022
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By:
  • Marc Silver
Travelers at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai, China on Dec. 12. China's public health officials say up to 800 million people could be infected with the coronavirus over the next few months.

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  • Health

COVID spreading faster than ever in China. 800 million could be infected this winter

Scientists predict China will see the largest COVID surge of the pandemic this winter, with hundreds of millions of people infected. But some experts say that it could have been even worse.

December 16, 2022
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff and
  • A Martínez
New COVID variants that are highly immune evasive have overtaken BA.5 to dominate in the U.S. Experts warn this means more reinfections and a possible winter surge.

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  • Health

New omicron subvariants now dominant in the U.S., raising fears of a winter surge

Step aside, BA.5. The new variants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, appear to be among the most adept yet at evading immunity from previous infection and vaccination.

November 11, 2022
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By:
  • Rob Stein
An electron microscope image shows a SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated in the early days of the pandemic. It's been nearly a year since omicron was first detected, and scientists say this branch of the coronavirus family tree is still thriving.

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  • Health

Omicron keeps finding new evolutionary tricks to outsmart our immunity

SARS-CoV-2 is evolving "rapidly," spawning one new variant after another. But omicron continues to dominate, raising new questions about how evolution of the virus is headed.

October 25, 2022
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By:
  • Rob Stein
A person walks into a health department in Cherokee County

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  • Health

Variant-specific booster for COVID-19 now available in Georgia

Dr. Carlos del Rio with Emory University School of Medicine says last year’s booster has been replaced by the new bivalent one, and that people can expect an annual COVID vaccine similar to how the influenza vaccine is updated yearly.  

September 13, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Sikhulile Moyo, the laboratory director at the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute and a research associate with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, headed the team that identified the omicron variant.

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to the Botswana scientist who identified omicron — then caught it?

Sikhulile Moyo led the team that first identified omicron — and was dismayed by the world's reaction — blaming and blacklisting African nations. He's now a bit more optimistic.

September 02, 2022
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
PBS NewsHour Weekend COVID-19 boosters shots ‘a tough balance’ for FDA, epidemiologists say

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  • Health

Coronavirus variant-specific boosters will soon be available in Georgia. Here's who needs a shot

The Food and Drug Administration earlier this week authorized the updated Pfizer-BioNTech booster shots. The endorsement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came Thursday, hours after advisers to the CDC voted to recommend reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines.

September 02, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
The new booster shot would be an update to Pfizer's current version of the shot, which was designed for the original strain of the coronavirus.

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  • Health

Pfizer asks FDA to greenlight new omicron booster shots, which could arrive this fall

Pfizer has submitted data on its bivalent COVID-19 booster shot that specifically targets the latest omicron subvariants. If authorized, the company says the shots could be ready as soon as September.

August 22, 2022
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By:
  • Pien Huang and
  • Will Stone
A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., Dec. 15, 2021.

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  • Health

The omicron subvariant dominating U.S. COVID-19 cases is more vaccine-resistant

The BA.5 strain represented 65% of cases from July 3 to 9, according to data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

July 15, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Print a poster version of this comic to hang up on your fridge or give away to friends. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ggzz9qS2c6rQCXg3VCUo9iip3i1XtWG/view?usp=sharing">Download the poster here. </a>

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  • Global Health

Coronavirus FAQ: Can I get COVID outdoors? (With printable poster on how to cut risks)

We've heard for months that chances of catching SARS-CoV-2 outdoors are far less than indoors. Is that still true with highly contagious omicron strains? And if it is, what can you do to stay safe?

July 01, 2022
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
A nurse fills a syringe with a COVID-19 vaccine in the Staten Island borough of New York on April 8, 2021. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended that COVID booster shots be modified to better match more recent variants of the coronavirus.

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  • Health

FDA says COVID boosters for the fall must target newer omicron types

With immunity waning and the super-contagious omicron family of variants getting better at dodging protection, the Food and Drug Administration decided boosters intended for fall needed an update.

June 30, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A health worker administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in Chester, Pa., on Dec. 15, 2021.

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  • Health

FDA advisers recommend updating COVID booster shots for the fall

The Food and Drug Administration will have to decide the exact recipe, but a combination shot is expected that adds protection against a version of the omicron variant to the original vaccine.

June 28, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A health worker administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in Chester, Pa., on Dec. 15, 2021.

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  • Health

FDA advisers recommend updating COVID booster shots for the fall

The Food and Drug Administration will have to decide the exact recipe, but a combination shot is expected that adds protection against a version of the omicron variant to the original vaccine.

June 28, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Chester, Pa., on Dec. 15, 2021. Pfizer says tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and boosts protection.

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  • Health

Pfizer says its tweaked COVID-19 shots boost protection against the omicron variant

Pfizer said that tweaking its vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works — just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall.

June 25, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The omicron variant, though much more contagious than the delta strain, is still prevalent in the U.S. but is less likely than delta to cause long COVID, according to a new study.

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  • Health

Omicron poses about half the risk of long COVID as delta, new research finds

Some scientists estimate that cases of long COVID from omicron will still rise, however, because of high transmissibility and the misconception that people don't have to worry about catching it.

June 16, 2022
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By:
  • Rob Stein
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