Category: USA
USA: Biden administration launches effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in buildings
The Clean Air in Buildings Challenge is a call to action for leaders and building owners and operators of all types to assess their indoor air quality and make ventilation and air filtration improvements to help keep occupants safe. More...
BA.4: Recombinant of Omicron BA.1 and BA.3
Potential BA.4 lineage with a mix of BA.1 and BA.3 mutations, 5 sequences found in South Africa and USA. More...
Preprint: Evidence for Delta and Omicron recombination in the US
We also identified two independent cases of infection by a Delta-Omicron recombinant virus, where 100% of the viral RNA came from one clonal recombinant. More...
USA: National Covid-19 Preparedness Plan, issued March 2022
The US has recently issued a National Covid-19 Preparedness Plan. More...
Preprint: Highly divergent lineage of SARS-CoV-2 in deer with potential deer-to-human transmission
We identified a new and highly divergent lineage of SARS-CoV-2. More...
Preprint: MSH3 omohlogy and potential recombination link to SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site
“A BLAST search revealed that a 19 nucleotide portion of the SARS.Cov2 More...
Is the global Sars-CoV-2 decline already petering out? *4 UPDATES & 1 PREDICTION*
Is the Omicron decline already petering out? There’s not much to go on yet, a few stutters in the world cases chart, some countries starting to see new surges, but it all looks vaguely familiar. More...
USA: Deltacron recombinant – BA.1.1 collides with AY.119.2 – *1 UPDATE*
A second Deltacron recombinant variant derived from the Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 strains was announced by the UK earlier this week. More...
USA: 5 gorillas test positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Dallas
Five gorillas at the Dallas Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19, the zoo said Tuesday. More...
USA: Omicron in white-tailed deer on Staten Island, New York *1 UPDATE*
White-tailed deer on Staten Island have become the first wild animals with documented Omicron infections. More...