![]() death was reported on February 29.Īs the virus quickly marched across the country, businesses, schools and social gatherings were largely shut down, while, by May, unemployment rates reached their highest levels since the Great Depression. ![]() The first non-travel case was confirmed in California on February 26, and the first U.S. coronavirus cases were noted by public health agencies between January 21 and Februall patients had traveled to China. 39 residents of Life Care Center, a nursing home in Kirkland, died from complications from the virus in one four-week span. In some cases, people who died from COVID-19 in January 2020, but didn’t know it at the time, had their death certificate amended to show they died from the virus.Īccording to the CDC, 14 U.S. In the following months, the Seattle area became the epicenter of an early U.S. ![]() He was hospitalized, where his condition grew worse and he developed pneumonia. Halfway across the world, on January 19, a man who had returned home to Snohomish County, Washington near Seattle on January 15, after traveling to Wuhan, checked into an urgent care clinic after seeing reports about the outbreak.Įxperiencing a cough, fever, nausea and vomiting, the Centers for Disease Control announced on January 21 that the 35-year-old had tested positive for COVID-19. The virus, which would spark a pandemic, was first reported in China on December 31, 2019. case of the 2019 novel coronavirus, which causes a disease known as COVID-19, is confirmed in a man from Washington State on January 21, 2020. The remainder of CDC’s risk assessment remains unchanged from last week’s (August 30 th) update.Following a rapid spread from its origin in Wuhan, China, the first U.S. Additional studies on this are ongoing, and we expect to learn more in upcoming weeks. Real-world data are needed to fully understand the impact given the complexities of the immune response to this variant. Additionally, based on CDC’s experience with past SARS-CoV-2 variants, people will likely have protection against severe disease mediated by both cellular and antibody immunity. Preliminary data from laboratory-studies from multiple investigators suggest similar antibody activity against BA.2.86 as compared to other currently circulating viruses.ĬDC and other experts are reassured by these research findings that support the effectiveness of this type of immunity against this variant. Recent Scientific Findings on the Immunology of BA.2.86īecause of the sequence divergence of BA.2.86, there was initial concern of a significant reduction in antibody activity. SARS-CoV-2 Interagency Group (SIG) classified BA.2.86 as a Variant being Monitored (VBM) on September 1, 2023. The variant has also been identified in wastewater samples in two states, New York and Ohio. states as of September 8, 2023, at 11:30 AM EDT- in people across Colorado, Delaware, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, as well as one additional human case that is being investigated. The variant has been identified in nine U.S. Since CDC’s initial risk assessment, BA.2.86 has been identified in additional countries from both human and wastewater specimens.That’s because the vaccine is tailored to the currently circulating variants. ![]() These data are also encouraging because of what it may mean for the effectiveness of the 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine, which is currently under review.
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