{"id":17729,"date":"2021-12-01T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=17729"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:34:54","slug":"first-omicron-case-detected-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/12\/01\/first-omicron-case-detected-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"First Omicron Case Detected in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The U.S. confirmed its first case of the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) on Wednesday, the CDC announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The California and San Francisco Departments of Public Health confirmed the case in a recent traveler returning from South Africa, according to a statement<\/a>. They added that the individual was fully vaccinated and had “mild symptoms that are improving.” Close contacts tested negative and the individual has been self-quarantining since the positive test, the agency added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of California San Francisco detected the variant through genomic sequencing, which was confirmed at CDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a White House COVID press briefing on Wednesday, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, President Biden’s chief medical advisor, added that University of California San Francisco examined the person, who was in South Africa for a week and returned on November 22. Fauci added that while the person was vaccinated, they were not boosted “to my knowledge.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is what we call in medicine an ‘n of 1,'” Fauci said, adding that other countries have more cases of Omicron, and scientists are looking closely at these breakouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The California and San Francisco Departments of Public Health also issued a joint statement, touting “California’s large-scale testing and early detection systems” in detecting the variant. They added that California “will continue to monitor the variant’s presence and progress” through whole-genome sequencing surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. recently announced a travel ban<\/a> involving several countries in southern Africa last week, after 77 cases of the Omicron variant were confirmed in South Africa. Other countries in Europe and Asia had already banned travel from South Africa, and the World Health Organization declared Omicron a variant of concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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