‘We Are Doubling Down On Our Vaccination Efforts,’ Omnicron Variant Not Yet In California

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — As of Sunday, the caller COVID-19 variant, Omnicron, has inactive not made its mode to California. In fact, determination are presently nary cases successful the United States.

Nevertheless, based connected erstwhile varieties, Omicron’s detection successful the United States is simply a substance of time.

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As agelong arsenic determination are immense populations of unvaccinated people, caller varieties volition emerge.

However, officials are doubling down connected vaccination and booster changeable efforts successful anticipation of its arrival.

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued the pursuing statement:

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“California is intimately monitoring the caller Omicron variant, which has not yet arrived successful California oregon the U.S. Vaccines proceed to beryllium our champion mode done the pandemic by safely protecting america against terrible unwellness from COVID-19 and its variants. We are doubling down connected our vaccination and booster efforts to guarantee that each Californians person entree to safe, effective, and escaped vaccines that tin forestall superior unwellness and death.”

The Omnicron variant, which originated successful South Africa, contains respective mutations successful cardinal regions of the microorganism that impact infectiousness and the immune system’s quality to defender against infection.

Scientists are acrophobic astir immoderate of the mutations due to the fact that they are chiseled from different variants already discovered, portion others are comparable.

At this point, we don’t cognize whether this caller variant causes much terrible COVID-19 sickness than different variants oregon however it would beryllium affected by the existent vaccinations.

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The CDPH has provided a information expanse detailing what they presently cognize astir the Omnicron variant. It tin beryllium recovered here.