Kelli covers public safety and the Dallas Police Department for The Dallas Morning News. When stratified by interval since receipt of last monovalent dose, VE against IMV and in-hospital death was 76% at 7179 days, 54% at 180364 days, and 56% at 365 days. We take your privacy seriously. GETTING VACCINATED: Houston hospitals see uptick in demand for booster shots as omicron spreads in Texas, Were going to have a wave. EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez issued disaster declaration on Monday following a weekend of dangerous storms that swept across most of the Upper Valley. The states case total is now 4,457,359, including 3,695,086 confirmed and 762,273 probable. Results were stratified by age group, time since receipt of last monovalent mRNA vaccine dose, and number of monovalent mRNA vaccine doses received. Differences between VE point estimates with nonoverlapping 95% CIs were considered statistically significant. Bowling says it remains to be seen whether or not Omicron will overtake Delta in the U.S. Infections have exploded in Britain, which on Wednesday reported its highest-ever total of new cases in a single day with 78,610. Although a bivalent mRNA dose was recommended on September 1, 2022, for all persons who had completed a primary COVID-19 vaccination series, bivalent vaccination coverage among adults aged 18 years is 20%, and most adults have only received monovalent mRNA vaccines (1,5). "Then you can tell, at the end, based on the sequence of those letters, if it's Omicron, if it's Delta, if it's Delta plus or any other variant.". As of April 2023, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in 1.1 million deaths in the United States, with approximately 75% of deaths occurring among adults aged 65 years (1).Data on the durability of protection provided by monovalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccination against critical outcomes of COVID-19 are limited beyond the Omicron BA.1 Demographic and clinical data, including receipt of IMV and in-hospital death within 28 days of admission, were collected through electronic medical record (EMR) review and patient or proxy interview. While it would be disappointing to test positive for the virus the day before Christmas, Rodriguez was optimistic. Bowling, an infectious disease specialist and associate professor of medicine at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio and University Health, says there are a lot of questions they still need answers to as the variant goes through its robust genetic sequencing program. The highly transmissible variant is causing near-vertical case growth in multiple U.S. cities, with figures doubling about every two to three CDC is not responsible for Section 508 compliance (accessibility) on other federal or private website. Nearly three days after the storm hit, nearly 15,000 AEP Texas customers in Hidalgo County still are without electricity. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Emily T. Martin reports grants from Merck and NIH, outside the submitted work. She also stressed other public health precautions proven to work since the onset of the pandemic last year, such as social distancing, wearing masks in crowded spaces, getting tested for the virus before attending holiday gatherings, and regular hand washing. 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Delta still currently accounts for more than 99 percent of cases of coronavirus that are genetically sequenced in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I mean, what could be worse than the fact that we've had 20,000 unvaccinated Texans since June 1 needlessly lose their lives out of vaccine defiance and refusal? Hotez said. Among 4,059 control patients, 979 (24%) were unvaccinated, and 3,080 (76%) were monovalent-vaccinated. part 56; 42 U.S.C. Akram Khan reports receiving grants from United Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson, 4D Medical, Eli Lily, Dompe Pharmaceuticals, and GlaxoSmithKline; and serves on the guidelines committee for Chest, outside the submitted work. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2022;71:45965. VE was 57% among patients aged 1864 years and 69% among patients aged 65 years. By comparison, a month ago that number was just under 8% and in early November it was under 5%. On April 18, 2023, bivalent mRNA vaccines became the only mRNA COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the United States. Only 42% of adults aged 65 years have received a bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccine dose and are up to date with COVID-19 vaccination (1). In stratified analyses, VE appeared to correlate more closely with time since last dose than with total number of doses received. Manjusha Gaglani reports having served as co-chair of the Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee for the Texas Pediatric Society, outside the submitted work. When I think about things that keep me up at night, it's the next wave of the delta variant. Views equals page views plus PDF downloads. It is now the dominant variant in the state and the Dallas-Fort Worth area as well, according to the scientists at UT Southwestern. Before joining The News in 2021, he reported in Orlando, Albany, N.Y., and San Francisco. FOX 4's Hanna Battah takes a look at the latest predictions. The death toll is 4,998. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. The variant appears to be spreading fast across the Houston area. Omicron already accounts for 94% of new cases in Texas, experts say. The current analysis expands on these findings by reporting monovalent mRNA COVID-19 VE against IMV and in-hospital death for a full year during the Omicron variant period. That's more youth cases than the agency registered over the past nine months and the largest single-day positive rate since the summer of 2020. I want them to get vaccinated. 552a; 44 U.S.C. Jennifer DeCuir, MD, PhD1,*; Diya Surie, MD1,*; Yuwei Zhu, MD2; Manjusha Gaglani, MBBS3,4,5; Adit A. Ginde, MD6; David J. Douin, MD6; H. Keipp Talbot, MD2; Jonathan D. Casey, MD2; Nicholas M. Mohr, MD7; Tresa McNeal, MD3,4; Shekhar Ghamande, MD3,4; Kevin W. Gibbs, MD8; D. Clark Files, MD8; David N. Hager, MD, PhD9; Minh Phan, MS9; Matthew E. Prekker, MD10; Michelle N. Gong, MD11; Amira Mohamed, MD11; Nicholas J. 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Ieshia Thomas physically felt fine, but she said her anxiety has been at an all-time high after several people in the office where she works tested positive. part 46.102(l)(2), 21 C.F.R. 1National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; 2Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; 3Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, Texas; 4Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Temple, Texas; 5Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, Texas; 6University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; 7University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; 8Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; 9Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; 10Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 11Montefiore Healthcare Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York; 12University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington; 13Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts; 14Intermountain Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; 15University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 16Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, Portland, Oregon; 17Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; 18Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; 19Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; 20Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; 21University of Miami, Miami, Florida; 22Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; 23The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio; 24University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 25Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; 26Henry Ford Health, Detroit, Michigan; 27Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Here's what we know about the latest cases found in Fort Bend County. However, the COVID expert placed it as his second biggest concern, behind the continuing delta wave in Texas. It was first detected in early January and the majority of cases have been seen in India so far. URL addresses listed in MMWR were current as of Metro Health Director Claude A. Jacob also urges residents to get vaccinated if they are not and to receive the booster shots that are now available to all residents, 18 and older. So I think that's one to keep things in perspective. There's concern it may be more transmissible based on results out of South Africa. Previous Omicron infection was defined as any self-reported or documented previous SARS-CoV-2 infection that occurred during December 26, 2021January 31, 2023. That would be a faster sweep than even the delta variant, which took about a three-month span to sweep prior variants and achieve 100 percent.