The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a statement on the situation of the COVID-19 outbreak. last friday It is monitoring an outbreak of the BQ.1, BQ.1.1 mutant, which saw a 16.6 percent increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. throughout the United States by assuming that in the past few weeks A rapid outbreak of this mutant was found. especially in New York City. BQ.1 accounted for 5.8 percent of all mutants, while BQ.1.1 accounted for 3.6 percent of all mutants.
The BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 mutants are mutations from the BA.5 subspecies omikron, which is currently spreading heavily in the United States. It is urging people to go for a new developed syringe vaccine that can fight against omikron and traditional strains. If there is no hurry to act on the number of winter cases in the United States might skyrocket As is already happening in both Europe and England.
Previously, the number of infections in the United States began to fall. Instead, the number of hospitalized patients rose during the week. Although it is still less than in the previous week. By now, public health agencies and vaccine manufacturers in the United States. Still closely monitoring the outbreak of the mutant infection. to see how the mutants will respond to the latest vaccine.