
There’s a new highly transmissible COVID-19 variant. Could FLiRT lead to a summer uptick?
LA TimesPassengers with and without face masks travel through at Los Angeles International Airport in January. Two new COVID-19 subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are increasingly edging out the winter’s dominant strain ahead of a possible summer uptick in coronavirus infections. “It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a new dominant variant in the U.S.,” said Dr. David Bronstein, an infectious diseases specialist at Kaiser Permanente Southern California. Chin-Hong said he is seeing COVID-19 patients at UC San Francisco with serious illness, and “they were either very old or very immune compromised and they didn’t get the most recent shots.” That the FLiRT subvariants are more easily able to spread underscores how important it is for those most at risk to be up to date on vaccinations and stay away from those who are sick, doctors say. and make sure that your symptoms are more mild before you decide to go back to your regular activities.” Science & Medicine U.S. health officials drop 5-day isolation time for COVID-19 The CDC said people who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days and can return to regular activities if their symptoms are mild and improving and it’s been a day since they’ve had a fever.
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