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Is COVID losing its fangs and becoming more like the flu?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Today’s hyper-transmissible strain of the COVID-19 virus has sent cases soaring across the country. But rising deaths — the grim marker of earlier dangerous surges — haven’t kept pace, and the average risk of dying from an infection is dropping to levels almost as low as…

Tribune News Service · Aug 10, 2022

LA County has cut back on COVID-19 contact tracing as supercontagious BA.5 surges

LOS ANGELES — After Julianne Cline went out and got tested for COVID-19 this June, text messages and voicemails soon piled up from Los Angeles County contact tracers who wanted to talk to her.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 30, 2022

BA.5 Covid-19 infections: What it means for the pandemic and booster shots

The new subvariant is responsible for a massive wave of new infections.

Inverse · Jul 15, 2022

California COVID-19 deaths near 90,000, but the per capita rate is among lowest in US

LOS ANGELES — California’s COVID-19 death toll is on the cusp of 90,000, a tally that comes as the U.S. is nearing its own milestone of 1 million deaths.

Los Angeles Times · May 9, 2022

Mysterious hepatitis outbreaks in children are confounding doctors. Here's what you need to know

Acute hepatitis outbreaks have affected kids throughout the world and are responsible for one death.

Inverse · Apr 27, 2022

The new omicron subvariant XE is getting attention. How concerned should we be?

LOS ANGELES — Even as the highly contagious omicron subvariant BA.2 is increasingly dominating California and the U.S., an even more potentially contagious subvariant, XE, has attracted the attention of global scientists.

Los Angeles Times · Apr 7, 2022

Coronavirus cases are rising again in LA, but is it the start of another wave?

LOS ANGELES — Coronavirus cases have begun to rise in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco counties, likely a result of the highly contagious omicron subvariant BA.2, decreased use of masks and waning immunity.

Los Angeles Times · Apr 6, 2022

Omicron BA.2 subvariant now 1 in 3 US COVID cases

New data Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show omicron’s more transmissible BA.2 subvariant now accounts for more than a third of the virus circulating in the U.S. but is not yet driving a surge in cases here as it has overseas.

Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2022

It’s a big mistake to think pandemic is over, despite recent good news, experts say

LOS ANGELES — So how much longer will the pandemic last?

Los Angeles Times · Feb 22, 2022

Will omicron mutate?

It's scientifically possible for omicron to mutate into a deadlier version of its transmissible self

Salon · Jan 20, 2022