This report documents the rapid increase of COVID-19-associated hospitalization among children and adolescents coinciding with the emerging predominance of the Omicron variant.
WASHINGTON, May 5 ― The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, unlike assumptions made in previous studies that it was more transmissible but less severe, a large study in the United States has found. “We found that the risks of hospitalisation.
Among people who were previously infected with the coronavirus, a third dose of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna may not boost their protection against the Omicron variant of the virus, according to new data.