Hannah Seidel-Nini ’26
Welcome to the Covid Column, let’s get crackin’!
Vaccine Alert! The FDA Pfizer, which for 5 year olds and under, has officially applied for, this vaccine is estimated to be approved by the end of February!
We’ve been through a lot of COVID variants in the time of the Pandemic, some of which have died out, but some of which have become the most known things around the world. These Variants are going to be the main topic of our article today.
But first! A small announcement! Cloth masks don’t work well against Covid! The recommended mask is a KN95, but a medical mask will work as well. Make sure you are wearing one of these masks in order to protect yourself from germs!
And now, back to COVID variants. The original virus, as everyone knows, is COVID-19, but since then we have had a DELTA variant, and a OMICRON variant. The symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to those of the flu, but with the vaccine dulls it down to anything from a bad cold, to having no symptoms at all! The DELTA variant didn’t have many differences from the original virus, what made it bad was the infecting rate. Where the original virus had 1 in 16 people being infected per case, DELTA had 1 in 6 people being infected per case. The final variant (so far) is OMICRON. OMICRON is extremely different from the original virus. It’s symptoms are a combination of bad flu cases, strep throat, and many other horrible virus symptoms. OMICRON’s infection rate is between 1 in 2-3 people being infected per case.