In the news. "The amount of virus identified in wastewater around the country and the number of weekly prescriptions for COVID treatment Paxlovid have all risen significantly over the past month (since June's low), albeit from low levels."
This is how to see COVID rates at nursing homes maintained by the CDC. Click the following CMS link. Then on the website, click Visualize Data. In the search box, type a value like location or nursing home name – you will see results of names pop-up. Click one. Click the green dot on the map. The data box will pop-up.
https://data.cms.gov/covid-19/covid-19-nursing-home-data
The newest variant and vaccine: "EG.5 had been found in more than 50 countries as of August 8, according to the WHO. It is the most common and fastest growing COVID-19 subvariant in the U.S." The new vaccine versions should be available late September and will "target another Omicron sublineage - XBB.1.5 - to more closely resemble the various circulating strains of the virus. EG.5 is similar to XBB.1.5 ... all of our tools (vaccine, tests, medicines) still work as the virus changes."
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