The total number of confirmed Covid cases in the United States surpassed 100 million
Earlier this week, the total number of confirmed Covid cases in the United States surpassed 100 million.
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California topped the caseload
more than 11.6 million cases, followed by Texas and Florida with confirmed cases of about 8.1 million and more than 7.3 million
Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1
About 70 percent of new cases in the week ending December 17 as BQ.1 was estimated to make up 30.7 percent of circulating variants, while BQ.1.1 was estimated to make up about 38.4 percent, CDC said.
The data showed that the US Covid case count rose to 100,002,248 since the pandemic broke out almost three years ago, with a total of 1,088,218 deaths.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center estimated that over three-quarters of ICU beds in the US will be occupied through Christmas
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these BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 variants are brand new, immune-evasive, and very contagious, so it’s unclear how well prior infection from other versions of Omicron might impact new waves of the virus