Covid-19

The current sub-variant is causing the already rising number of hospitalizations to remain high, but just how crowded are St. Louis hospitals going to get?

The number of people fully vaccinated in St. Louis City is 178,828. More than 80,000 people have received their first booster.

Why? Because it combines properties of both omicron and delta, the nation’s dominant variant in the middle of last year.

While the region is not under a similar threat as the winter omicron surge, the virus has spread across St. Louis at a rate five times higher than just six weeks ago.

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By April 20, the new Omicron subvariant was the cause of about 76% of new cases in Central New York. By the end of the month, according to New York State, “Data for April indicate that levels in Central New York are now above 90%.”