2024-02-14 01:24:47
The US CDC estimates that up to 86% of new COVID-19 cases are due to the latest mutation.
A new variant coming from Omicron, call JN.1is spreading rapidly and is currently the most widely circulated in the United States.
The mutation was detected by the World Health Organization (WHO) at the end of August last year, but due to the high temperatures, it is still It didn’t spread that fast.
In this way, as soon as they began to go down, JN.1 was firedinfecting thousands of people.
In mid-October, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this variant represented around 0.1% of all cases of COVID-19 throughout the country. Three months later, on January 20, the organization estimated that the figure reached 86%.
Eyal Oren, director and professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at San Diego State University, told NPR that “chances are, if you are contracting COVID right now, are contracting this particular variant mutation“.
Furthermore, he explained that “one of the reasons for the latest increase in this virus is that it evolves so quickly that our immune systems have not been able to keep up“.
The CDC and the WHO They continue to call on the population to get vaccinatedsince, those that are available today, they are still effective. In addition, they will reduce serious illnesses and avoid hospitalization.
What are the symptoms of the new Omicron variant?
The most common symptoms among people who have the JN.1 variant are sore throat and congestion. On the other hand, dry cough or loss of taste or smell which used to be very commonthey are no longer.
The most serious cases they do share the symptoms of other variantsas the difficulty breathing, pain in the chest or skin, pale, gray or blue lips or nails which indicate a lack of oxygen.
Although cases are expected to continue increasing, tests with this variant do not suggest that it is associated with greater severity than others that are also circulating around the world.