The first two us cases in children have been confirmed. we have doctor mark siegel, professor of medicine at nyu, we have a lot to get to. i want to start with the president. he has an upper respiratory infection but is doing well which is great news. to what do you attribute how well the president is recovering? great to be with you. his symptoms are classic for the omicron sub variant ba 5 which is 80% of cases now. the addition of sore throat as bodyaches are characteristic. you make your bodyaches and say otto but that is common with this at has elusive cough and fatigue but the fever he had, mild, went away. all of this shows he is progressing. you ask what does it do? i agree with what you said in the outset. even though the latest sub variance are immuno face of, the immunity you build up
Because we need those up dated boosters yesterday, basically, but we won t be able to get them probably until october november if we have the proper funding. last one, quickly, there s, it s early, we want to caution it is early, but there is some, there is potential of a new strain of covid out of india right now that may not be an omicron sub variant but something new entirely. potentially even becoming a variant of concern. what do we know about this in admittedly early days. yes, sure, ba.2.75, it is something we re keeping an eye on. you re exactly right. we haven t identified it or flagged this variant of concern but here is why we re looking at it closely in india. it is becoming the dominant strain. quickly replacing other omicron strains. and on top of that, there s some very anecdotal hints here and there that it could perhaps lead to more severe infection. very hard to know because we have to keep in mind that india s vaccination rates and its infection rates kind of are
Our vaccine, which clearly, is in this one, is important because it s so far removed from the original ancestral virus that having antibodies against it not only protects against omicron but gives you good surround for these new omicron sub variants and that may come along. i think it s very important, and i think people should be reassured for that. i would say though, i think what we ve been able to show here as well is that the moderna platform can really respond very quickly. it s taken seven months to get here, but we ve been very cautious, very rigorous in our testing. i think now, given the hundreds of millions of people that have been dosed with our vaccine around the world, we know it s a very safe, very effective. we could even speed that up. so i think having omicron as a component of that vaccine. it s important, but i think we
MANILA, June 3 (Xinhua) The Philippines has detected COVID-19 Omicron sub-variant BA.5 from two people in the same household in a province north of the capit
The arms and the legs, and it can effect the palms. first a flat rash, and then it develops into a bluster blister, but not the thin bli blisters, but a rather thick one that quickly becomes kind of yellowish. if you touch it, it feels rubbery. and certainly, that distinctive rash, along with those other symptoms, please, quickly get medical attention. yeah. that gives me you said it s less contagious than a virus lick covid. i want to ask about that right now. new cases have tripled in the last month. we have these new omicron sub variants which appear to be more contagious, and so for people who are vaccinated and boosted, we know some of them are getting this. again, what should they do? well, for sure we re talking about covid now. cases, mostly mild cases, not so