Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles within a heavily infected nasal cell. Around the world, scientists are striving to parse out just how risky a COVID-19 infection is at this point in time.
This is a transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles within a heavily infected nasal cell. After trending downward for several months, COVID-19 is on the upswing in Alberta once again.shows a number of key indicators, including case counts, hospitalization numbers and positivity rates, are ticking up.
The latest data from Alberta Health shows 114 people hospitalized with SARS CoV-2, an increase of more than two dozen in two weeks. Six patients are in intensive care. "Most of them are not getting severely ill. Obviously there are exceptional cases of patients that are severely immunocompromised that can get severe disease. But we do have treatments to try and prevent disease from becoming severe for those that pick up COVID in the hospital."Alberta is bringing in more rapid COVID-19 tests as millions destined to be tossed
"The important thing is for people who are high risk to really make sure that their vaccine is up to date. That's the easiest thing to do," said Gregson.
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