Resources with keywords: variants
Due to the increased transmissibility of the Omicron variant and concerns about potential impacts on the healthcare system, the CDC is updating recommendations to enhance protection for healthcare personnel, patients, and visitors, and ensure adequate staffing in healthcare facilities.
On 25 November 2021, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa announced the detection of a new variant of the SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, following genomic sequencing. This variant is currently labelled as lineage B.1.1.529.
WHO, in collaboration with partners, expert networks, national authorities, institutions and researchers have been monitoring and assessing the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 since January 2020
Arora P, Rocha C, Kempf A, et al.
Taylor CA, Patel K, Pham H, et al.
One-stop-shop to scroll and search for VOI, VOC, variants under monitoring, and de-escalated variants
Farinholt, T., Doddapaneni, H., Qin, X. et al. Transmission event of SARS-CoV-2 delta variant reveals multiple vaccine breakthrough infections. BMC Med 19, 255 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02103-4
Farinholt T, Doddapaneni H, Qin X, et al.
The authors say “Our observations support continued efforts to generate SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences from positive patient samples, to identify possible vaccine breakthrough mutations.”
Discusses how contagious the Delta variant is, whether current vaccines protect against it and how dangerous it is.
