As the summer winds down, cases of COVID-19 have increased in Boston and elsewhere. In the two weeks leading up to Aug. 7, Boston saw a 94.3% increase in positive cases — averaging out to about 2.6 cases per 100,000 people. But experts say the rise in cases isn’t uncommon for this time of year. “We have seen an increase…
"If you want to keep an eye on a variant that's just been found out, one called BA286 does show a bit more differences from a perspective of number of mutations than the previous variants," said Sax."We're going to be watching that very closely."
The rise in cases comes just months before the start of flu and RSV season, and just one month before the"It's a monovalent booster, so it doesn't have two different strains like the one we received last fall, and it should be better targeted to the circulating omicron variants that are currently going around," Sax said.
The Biden administration says it plans on encouraging Americans to get the new booster, along with the flu and RSV vaccines.
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