New strains of COVID-19 variants need extra protection

A new variant of COVID-19 virus is showing up, and is especially prevalent in the North Eastern region of the US. The variant known as XBB.1.5 has emerged as the dominant strain in that area, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making up nearly half of new infections. The XBB.1.5 variant made […]

Hospital wards in crisis due to infections

What is now being reported as a “tripledemic of Covid, RSV and flu” is pushing U.S. hospitals into a crisis mode. A few months back, we reported on the observations coming from Southern Hemisphere countries like Australia and New Zealand that “Flu is coming early this year”, and even earlier that “there could be a […]

Flu is coming early this year, and it could be worse than normal

According to reports from medical centers around the country, there are already many cases of influenza popping up all over, and even some people having to be hospitalized. This is not the normal pattern, because in the past, the earliest signs of the annual flood usually only showed up in November. Now, cases have been […]

Is there a ‘twindemic’ coming to the Northern Hemisphere this winter?

The sudden arrival of COVID-19 at the start of 2020 broke an established pattern of how the influenza virus swept through countries with the onset of winter. Until then, it was reasonably well understood that each year saw a slightly new variant of the virus, but there was enough knowledge for scientists to be able […]