Category: delta variant

Tasmanian Adventurers Discover Australia’s Deepest Cave

A team of Australian cavers have discovered the country’s deepest underground chamber, and at 401 metres (1,316 feet) underground, it breaks the previous record by four metres. As part of a decade-long mission to unravel the mysteries of Australia’s deepest caves, nine elite cavers from the Southern Tasmanian Caverneers went underground on an expedition that…


Tasmanian Adventurers Discover Deepest Cave in Australia

A team of Australian cavers have discovered the country’s deepest underground chamber, and at 401 metres (1,316 feet) underground, it breaks the previous record by four metres. As part of a decade-long mission to unravel the mysteries of Australia’s deepest caves, nine elite cavers from the Southern Tasmanian Caverneers went underground on an expedition that…


COVID-19 in Mainland China: Mix of Delta and Omicron Variants

The Chinese regime announced COVID-19 outbreaks in the north, south, east, and west of the country on Feb. 19 that are primarily Delta and Omicron variants. The infected cities include Heihe in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang Province, Huludao in northeastern Liaoning, Suzhou in eastern Jiangsu, Shaoxing in eastern Zhejiang, Wenshan, Honghe, and Ruili in southwestern Yunnan,…


Delta, Omicron Outbreaks Spread in Parts of China

The Chinese regime announced COVID-19 outbreaks in the north, south, east, and west of the country on Feb. 19 that are primarily Delta and Omicron variants. The infected cities include Heihe in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang Province, Huludao in northeastern Liaoning, Suzhou in eastern Jiangsu, Shaoxing in eastern Zhejiang, Wenshan, Honghe, and Ruili in southwestern Yunnan,…


Study Shows False Positive Results in Over 40 Percent of Positive Rapid Tests

A new study reveals that more than 40 percent of positive results in rapid antigen tests were false, raising concerns as provinces increasingly rely on the rapid tests in forming COVID-19 response strategies. The study, conducted by the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, was published in the JAMA peer-reviewed journal on Jan. 7, 2022….


Omicron May Help End the Pandemic This Winter

Commentary In the 1960s, measles was devastating in many parts of the world, with the child mortality rate as high as 50 percent. Scientists isolated the virus from patients and cultivated it in chicken embryo fibroblasts. This process, called the attenuation process, made the virus less virulent. Less virulent viruses are sometimes used as vaccines, known…


Omicron Spreads Faster Than Delta Within Vaccinated Individuals: Danish Study

A Danish study of nearly 12,000 households has discovered that Omicron spreads faster than Delta among those who are fully vaccinated, and even higher between those who have received booster shots, demonstrating strong evidence of the variant’s immune evasiveness. The Omicron variant was found to evade the immunity of vaccinated individuals at a much faster…


3-quarters of People With Cold-Like Symptoms May Have COVID-19: UK Study

Three-quarters of people who have developed cold-like symptoms may have contracted the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, UK scientists have said. According to new analysis by the ZOE COVID Study, 75 percent of people experiencing new cold-like symptoms are likely to have symptomatic COVID-19, up from around 50 percent reported last week. Meanwhile, the study…


Ohio Sets Single-Day COVID-19 Cases Record, Again

Ohio has again set a record for the most new COVID-19 cases in the state in a day, continuing a trend in the midwest and some northeastern states, according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments. The Buckeye State recorded 12,864 new COVID-19 cases within a 24-hour period…


Omicron Variant Expected to Stay, Says Expert

Vaccine expert and chair of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Jane Halton said Omicron would most likely replace Delta and become the dominant strain. “It’s arrived, and we’re now seeing it spreading not just in Sydney but elsewhere,” Halton told the Nine Network on Thursday. “I think the horse has bolted.” The news comes as…