Club Updates – Aug. 17 Note to subscribers: With the CDC’s relaxing of COVID-19 guidelines and the virus’s evolution from pandemic to endemic stage, NCA’s COVID coverage is moving to our bi-weekly Club Insider Brief(CIB). COVID-19 Club Update subscribers will receive CIB starting next week. We hope you enjoy
Club Updates – Aug. 3Roughly 130,000 Americans are testing positive for COVID-19 daily, a 2% decrease from two weeks ago, reports The New York Times. Led by Kentucky with a 22% uptick in cases from two weeks prior, about half of state are experiencing a small
Club Updates – July 20The BA.5 variant now makes up about 65% of all COVID-19 U.S. cases, reports the CDC. Notably, studies have shown that the variant is able to bypass vaccine and previous infection immunities more easily than prior strains. Additionally, ABC reports that the increase
Club Updates – July 6COVID-19 infections have increased in recent weeks due to the fast-spreading BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, reports the CDC. The two strains now make up 70.1% of cases as of July 2, compared to 52% the week prior. BA.4 and BA.5 are more
Club Updates – June 22COVID-19 death rates continue to stay near the same rate despite the recent surge in infections, reports ABC. This is in part due to the vaccine and booster shot, says experts. Those unvaccinated remain at higher risk for severe cases, and among
Club Updates – June 8After May’s uptick in infections, the country’s COVID-19 rate has appeared to plateau, but is still in a surge state, says Johns Hopkins University Doctor and Former White House COVID-19 Advisor Tom Inglesby. And while more than 100,000 cases are reported each
Club Updates – May 25The country’s seven-day average of daily new COVID-19 cases has surged above 100,000—more than three times the rate this time last year—according to CNBC analysis of CDC data. Fortunately, hospitalizations have remained relatively low. The spike is due to four highly infectious
Club Updates – May 4Unvaccinated people no longer account for the overwhelming majority of U.S. coronavirus deaths, reports The Washington Post. Forty-two percent of COVID-19 deaths in January and February were from vaccinated individuals, compared to just 23% of the dead in September during the delta
Club Updates – April 20While COVID-19 cases are up in 32 states and up 42% nationwide from two weeks ago, per the CDC, COVID-19 related hospitalizations have dropped by 18% during that span. The spike is due to the BA.2 subvariant that has now become
Club Updates – April 6COVID-19 restrictions have eased alongside the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths dropping. One model eCOVID-19 infection rates continue to fall as new variants BA.2 Omicron and Deltacron emerge. About At least 95% of Americans ages 16 and older have