A new study combines real-time syndromic surveillance data from daily cross-sectional surveys with a COVID-like illness (CLI) prevalence-based vaccine efficacy estimator to better explain the early onset of the omicron variant.
First Posted: Jul 20, 2021 09:23 PM EDT
President Joe Biden highlighted the progress the United States has done amid the coronavirus pandemic. Biden touted the progress in a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, as he also acknowledged that the U.S. will still have a long fight against COVID due to the surge in Delta variant cases, according to a report from The Hill.
President Joe Biden Highlights the Progress of the U.S. on Cabinet Meeting
The cabinet meeting President Biden attended marked his first six months in the office. Among the several other officials present in the said conference were Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
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The World Health Organization yesterday said the new Indian COVID-19 variant responsible for the fast acceleration of explosive outbreaks in India had been detected in dozens of countries worldwide.
AN NDTV report said that according to the UN health agency, the new strain identified as B.1.617 variant of COVID-19, originally discovered in India in October 2020, had been detected in over 4,500 samples uploaded to an open-access databank from 44 nations in all six regions of the WHO.
In its weekly update on the COVID-19 crisis, WHO said it received reports of detections from five countries more. Outside of India, WHO said Britain had reported they had the largest number of COVID-19 cases caused by the said new strain.