Massachusetts health officials reported 7,076 new COVID-19 cases and 31 new deaths on Thursday, the first weekly update since the state announced changes to its.
Most of eastern Massachusetts, including Boston, remains at medium risk for COVID-19, the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data finds.
Scientists expect the new omicron variants will soon be responsible for most COVID-19 infections, and they will likely cause an increase in re-infection rates.
reporter: at the coronavirus price we can expect to see more variants and sub- variants like ba-5. it is causing more than half of covid-19 infections here in the us. other sub- variants circulating right now are ba-2 and , ba-2. these are circulating at a time when nearly a third of the us population lives in a county with covid-19 committee levels that the cdc considers to be high. those counties with a high level are spread across many major us regions like new york city, houston harris county, miami-dade county, and las vegas is clark county. even though our lives are returning to normal, this is