![]() This may result in occasional data discrepancies on this page as the JHU team resolves anomalies and updates its feeds. The JHU team automates its data uploads and regularly checks them for anomalies. GET THE DAYSTARTER MORNING UPDATE: Sign up to receive the most up-to-date information.The graphics on this page pull from data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University from several sources, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the World Health Organization national, state and local government health departments 1point3acres and local media reports. PROTECTING SENIORS: Here’s how seniors can stay safe from the virus. KIDS AND VACCINES: Got questions about vaccinating your kid? Here are some answers.īOOSTER SHOTS: Confused about which COVID booster to get? This guide will help.īOOSTER QUESTIONS: Are there side effects? Why do I need it? Here’s the answers to your questions. Here’s the latest on how the infectious COVID-19 variant affects masks, vaccines, boosters and quarantining. OMICRON VARIANT: Omicron changed what we know about COVID. Help is available in English, Spanish and other languages.ĭisability Information and Access Line: Call 88 or email More help: Call the National COVID-19 Vaccination Assistance Hotline. Here’s how to find a site near you:įind a site: Visit to find vaccination sites in your ZIP code. Many allow appointments to be booked online. The COVID-19 vaccine for ages 5 and up and booster shots for eligible recipients are being administered at doctors’ offices, clinics, pharmacies, grocery stores and public vaccination sites. The U.S.: The Department of Health and Human Services has a website that can help you find a testing site. So far, 56 cases of BA.5 have been detected in the U.S., including two in Florida, according to variant-tracking organization GISAID. Much is still unknown about how quickly BA.5 spreads and how well it evades existing immunity. It’s too early to tell what threat BA.5 poses here, Hladish said. Less than a month later, the variant arrived in the U.S., causing the worst spike so far in the pandemic. When omicron first appeared in South Africa in November, cases shot up by over 2,600 percent in 2 weeks. A new variant, BA.5, has taken off in South Africa, where cases have increased by over 450 percent in the past month, according to COVID-19 tracking organization Our World In Data. There may also be trouble on the horizon. Boosters can help, but just 26 percent of the state’s population has gotten extra shots. Vaccine immunity also wanes months after the last dose. While 67 percent of Florida’s total population is vaccinated, two doses is no longer enough against omicron, BA.2.12.1 and perhaps future variants. Related: Biden marks COVID ‘tragic milestone’ in U.S. ![]() That immunity will not last forever, especially when less than half of Florida residents who are eligible to get the booster have done so. That’s why the variant is slowly “burning through a population that, either from immunity or behavior, are susceptible (to infection) right now,” he said. Immunity from vaccination or prior infection appears to be holding for most Floridians, Hladish said. The subvariant is more infectious than its predecessors and now accounts for nearly half of new infections in the southeast, according to CDC estimates. ![]() The increase is driven by an omicron subvariant called BA.2.12.1. ![]() If cases were going to take off like that, he said, they would have by now. Hladish doesn’t expect to see the explosive growth that the country saw after the arrival of the delta and omicron variants last year. At this point, the increase in infections is more of a “swell” than a wave similar to delta and omicron, said University of Florida epidemiologist Thomas Hladish. Related: Tracking COVID in wastewater is the future - but not in Floridaīut experts aren’t sounding the alarm yet. ![]()
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