fighting to save damar hamlin s life. and a stunning increase, that is how it is described. that is how the white house is describing the rise in a new covid subvariant. the white house joins us to talk about it. this is what we re watching at this hour. e remain day. in a fight not seen in more than a century and that is not perbo. a century. next hour they will be heading back into that chamber for a fourth straight day of voting and in an exercise that, let s be honest, has become groundhog day. kevin mccarthy has failed on 11 ballots and the path ahead very uncertain. the big difference at this hour is a conference call, all getting on the phone to talk about what kevin has and what he s negotiating and what kevin
and that is a good point. theres h there have been a lot of viruses hitting hard this season. which are you more concerned, this covid subvariant or the nasty wave of flu that people are dealing with in the united states. we re tracking them all very closely. and here is what we know. rsv is down. that is good. and flu looks like it is peaked in most parts of the country. that is good. so we ve been tracking those closely and now covid looks like it is on the way out. so in the short to medium term, i m concerned about covid, but we re looking at all of the viruses and thinking about all of the things that we could do to prevent people from getting sick and ending up in the hospital. but right now covid is a thing that is increasing that we need to pay most attention to. thank you so much for coming on. thank you. still ahead for us, vladimir putin ordered a temporary cease-fire in ukraine to coincide with the orthodox
Covid subvariant BF.7 detected in West Bengal: All four cases are currently Covid-negative as per their latest test reports. Of the four people, three are from Nadia district, while one person hails from Bihar but currently resides in Kolkata, the official added.
of time and realtime. it s not the incident itself, but the fact that the president was insistent about going to the capitol. thanks for jumping in at the last second getting this information out to us. we appreciate it. as we reach the end of the holiday season and prepare to ring in the new year, health experts are warning a new covid subvariant and causing a vise in hospitalizations. according to the cdc, the omicron subvariant known as xbb now accounts for more than half of covid cases in the northeast, up from just 7% last month. across the country, it accounts for 18% and it s growing. join me now is vin gupta. a pulmonologist and an nbc medical contributor. now we re talking about a subvariant of a subvariant of a subvariant. it makes your head spin. does it appear to be more contagious than previous strains? what should people do to protect themselves? ryan, good morning. thank you for framing the question like that. because i think our viewers are
While the BA.5 COVID variant was the nation’s dominant strain for months, that’s not the case any longer. Subvariants BQ.1.1 and BQ.1 have since taken over,.