“I think for the next two weeks, we’re going to continue to see our case rates rise,” said Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Thursday. That statement was made more om…
63% of its citizens. South Africa is also home to the world’s biggest HIV epidemic, according to Bloomberg, with an estimated 8.2 million people infected with HIV. That’s about 13% of the country’s population. Those immunocompromised people are more susceptible to other viruses like Covid.
How is that possible Omicron could drive such a surge, given experts generally agree that it is much less virulent than the Delta variant? Again, Omicron’s increased transmissibility may be key. “Viruses generally evolve to become more contagious and less dangerous,” said Dr. Tony Napolitano whose company, Wellstand, provides testing services to film and TV productions.“If you kill your host,” he said, “you can’t reproduce and spread.”Napolitano“All pigs have this virus,” he noted about the pathogen, which can also infect humans. “It gets into the pig’s DNA and stays there. It doesn’t hurt them.
The district has deployed baseline testing for all students, teachers and other employees ahead of the return to in-person instruction. Interim Superintendent Megan Reilly said last week that the district is reporting a roughly 13% positivity rate thus far.a similar strategy when classes resumed last August. At that point, baseline testing before the restart revealed a test positivity rate of 0.8%. That was far below the countywide positivity rate of 3.5% the day classes started.