The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 10,000 deaths were reported in December, while hospital admissions during the month jumped 42% in nearly 50 countries — mostly in Europe and the Americas — that shared such trend information.
“Although 10,000 deaths a month is far less than the peak of the pandemic, this level of preventable deaths is not acceptable,” the World Health Organization director-general told reporters from its headquarters in Geneva.
He said it was “certain” that cases were on the rise in other places that haven’t been reporting, calling on governments to keep up surveillance and provide continued access to treatments and vaccines.
There’s a tingling sensation that I get and my cold sores activated the last two times I was exposed to covid. I got that sensation again a week after our holiday gathering, making me extra thankful that I got vaccinated 2 months ago.
That sensation: “prodrome”
This is a cool new vocabulary word, thank you. Would you consider the aura some people get before migraines to fit this definition?