Omicron COVID Variant Keeps Evolving, Transmission Rates Increasing in Washington
Added 2022-07-06 17:28:46 +0000 UTC[OLYMPIA, Wash.] – (MTN) Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) updated criteria for measuring the impact of COVID in a region, 15 Washington counties currently have high community levels of COVID-19. In March, the CDC changed the criteria for defining low, medium, and high to a formula that evaluates new cases, new hospital admissions, and the percent of in-patient staffed beds treating COVID-infected patients.
The University of Washington Virology Lab reported on Monday that test positivity was 15.4% from an Independence Day holiday reduced sample set. The rapidly evolving Omicron variant of COVID has eliminated the tidal waves of new cases that came in spikes every four to six months to a steady but controllable flood.
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Comments
Unfortunately, US isn’t much better. When I lived in California, it was on top of things and now in Illinois it’s not bad either, but other states? Holly hell. Even here people are simply exhausted and dropping their guard. I get it, but it’s hard to agree with it.
Anton Poliakov
2022-07-06 22:53:44 +0000 UTC
