Covid-19 anxiety variable hit the United States in time for the summer

The new alternative from Covid-19, NB.1.8.1, raises a problem. The alternative, already associated with modern offers in parts of Asia, was also monitored in the United States.

The World Health Organization has devoted a growing appearance of NB.1.8.1 in Delay Status report on Covid-19 Wednesday. Scientists have recently discoverer NB.1.8.1 in California and other states. Although NB.1.8.1 is not very different from the current variables, the World Health Organization warns that Covid-19 is still a threat to public health.

To date, cases less than 20 NB.1.8.1 were in the United States I mentionedThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told NBC News last Wednesday. But the alternative is associated with an increase in cases and hospitals entering other countries such as China. Compared to other current variables, NB.1.8.1 may have some mutations that can increase their transfer.

I got to know the World Health Organization for the first time to NB.1.8.1 as a variable last week, although it was first discovered in late January. Recently, it has become an increasing threat. As of mid -May, about 10 % of all cases around the world were reported to the World Health Organization from NB.1.8.1 (an increase of 2 % four weeks ago only). The Covid-19 activity was generally the rise, with a positive test rate around the world 11 % from May 11-an unprecedented level since July 2024.

However, NB.1.8.1 is still genetically within the same wide proportions of Covid-19 viruses that first started with OMICRON in late 2021. This means that this type of omicron was unlikely to raise this type of omicron at first when he arrived. The World Health Organization has not yet found any evidence that NB.1.8.1 causes any more severe disease than current variables.

“The evaluation of … the latest VUM, NB.1.8.1, indicates that the general health risk posed by these variables compared to other traded variables,” said the World Health Organization in its report.

But Covid-19 itself is still a very real public health problem, even if its risk is generally decreased since 2022. From October 2024 to May 2025, Covid-19 is estimated To kill between 30,000 and 50,000 Americans and introduced up to 430,000 people, a burden on an equal foot with the average influenza season. The last appearance of NB.1.8.1 can definitely feed a new peak in the United States and other places, in time for the summer.

In addition to the danger is the release rates of the rock bottom recently, even among the older adults who are the most vulnerable to severe diseases. According to the World Health Organization, only 1.68 % of the elderly in 75 countries received Covid-19-19 shot in 2024. While the original Covid-19 vaccines continue to ensure a low risk of death and severe disease from Covid-19, supportive doses reduce this risk. The situation in the United States does not look forward to improving any time soon.

Under the reign of the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who has long published misleading information about the safety of vaccine, recently the Center for Disease Control Removed I recommend that pregnant women and young children receive Covid-19 vaccines, for example. Trump’s health officials also have signal Their plans to recommend only Covid-19 vaccines for the elderly Americans in general, and its new system Already The development of newer vaccines, and perhaps more effective for both influenza and Covid-19.

Although Covid-19 is no longer the threat that was shaken by the world once, it did not disappear, and variables like NB.1.8.1 This lesson can teach us painfully again.

The World Health Organization said in its report: “According to the latest global risk assessment of the World Health Organization, which covers the period from July to December 2024, the global public health risk associated with Covid-19 is still high,” said the World Health Organization.