City of El Paso spokeswoman Laura Cruz-Acosta said health officials have detected one case of a more transmissible subvariant of the Omicron variant so far.
At the February 11, 2022 opening of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infection, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine presented data that suggests a new HIV outbreak in Tijuana, Mexico, driven in part by "drug tourism" unabated by the closure of the international border due to the COVID-19 pandemic.