no sign we are headed for anything waves peak pandemic era but still alarming trend. dr. marc siegel is here tonight with details. good evening, doc, you hear this and you say here we go again. no. i don t think so i think you were right with your first no that you said. i don t think we are going back there. i will tell you why. first of all, most of us, if not all, have immune memory from previous infections or from vaccinations we have had. that immune memory haul itself out if it comes in contact with a virus that comes back. subvariant you are talking about eg .5 by all estimates more severe and not even more contagious than previous variants. but it may cause a resurgence of some kind. we are seeing 13% increase in hospitalizations. up to about 9,000 a week. but to give you an idea, that s about one fifth of where we were last year. and the cases are about one fifth of where we were last year. i don t think we are heading back in that direction. i don t think there s any plac
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network):- About 18 per cent of all community cases of Covid-19 detected in recent weeks are of the new EG.5 Omicron subvariant, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Tuesday (Aug 8).
even though the weeks are progressing, the numbers keep going up. we think the reason behind it is if you look at what happens in the winter, we move inside because it is cold. what happened over the last month or so is we moved inside because it was hot. closed the windows, turned the can circulate that way. so we think that s why it s moving. on top of that, there s a new subvariant that s the most dominant. 17.3% of all variants out there. we think that s going to be fast moving because it s not one the ones we re used to. we have to keep this all in context because 9,000 hospital last year. let s talk about the guidance for shots. do we know what the advice will be come fall, come winter? we don t. we think we might understand what they re going to do. what s going to happen is the fda is going to approve the new shots that will have the new subvariant in them probably