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🧪11 Potential ‘Stealth’ Omicron Symptoms Experts Say May Impact Breakthrough Cases. As the Omicron variant continues to fuel widespread SARS-CoV-2 sickness, a sibling-like version of the highly infectious variant is now causing concern among healthcare.

February 1, 2022

Campuses in Orange County starting to return to pandemic normal With masking and vaccination requirements, UC Irvine students returned to classrooms in person, as the county appears to be coming off an omicron-fueled winter surge of coronavirus.

February 1, 2022

🩺IDSI Associate Director Dr.Minin & Faculty Advisory Board Dr.Felgner ft on Health magazine, “What Makes Omicron Spread More Rapidly Compared to Other COVID-19 Variants?” Preliminary evidence shows Omicron is better at dodging people’s immune systems.

January 30, 2022

IDSI Associate Director Dr.Shruti Gohil ft in OC Register, “Number of patients hospitalized ‘with COVID’ vs. ‘for COVID’ is shifting”. Health experts say hospitals are still under strain with a “mix bag” of COVID-positive & non-COVID-specific symptoms.

January 25, 2022

IDSI Associate Director Dr. Vladimir Minin New paper on the “Statistical implications of relaxing the homogeneous mixing assumption in time series Susceptible-Infectious-Removed models” Models can be biased in the presence of non-homogeneous mixing.

January 23, 2022

🩺IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. José Mayorga ft on CBSLA on “Health Officials Describe Winter COVID Surge At ‘Near Crisis Level”. The latest surge is causing deadly rapid spreading infections stretching resources thin across clinics & testing sites.❄️

January 20, 2022

IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. Boden-Albala ft in well+good media, “Should You Swab Your Throat When COVID Testing At-Home? We Asked Experts To Weigh In.” More people are reaching for at-home antigen tests to assess virus detection.

January 20, 2022

IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. @UCISPPHDean (Boden-Albala) ft in @iamwellandgood media, “Should You Swab Your Throat When COVID Testing At-Home? We Asked Experts To Weigh In.” More people are reaching for at-home antigen tests to assess […]

“OC Colleges Respond to Omicron Variant”As Omicron replaces Delta as the dominant COVID variant, the University of California, Irvine has reported returning to remote instruction for indefinite amounts of time and canceling on-campus events.

January 16, 2022

❄️Dr. Sara Mednick, professor at the University of California, Irvine’s Dept. of Cognitive Science on the “Demand for OC Senior Programs Surges During COVID-19, Pointing to A Bigger Problem Ahead”.❄️

January 14, 2022

❄️Michael Yassa director of UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. Explains memory loss, dizziness, and delirium are among the effects of long-term COVID19 But even people without a positive diagnosis feel the pandemic weight.

January 13, 2022

IDSI Associate Director Dr. Shruti Gohil featured in Health Line on “Why Omicron COVID-19 Cases Are Usually Less Severe Than Delta Cases”. The fast-spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19 seems to cause less severe illness than previous versions.

January 12, 2022

katrine whiteson

IDSI Faculty Advisory Board Dr.Katrine Whiteson on monitoring SARS-CoV-2 using wastewater-based epidemiology. COVID19 mitigation strategies require accurate and affordable detection methods to help minimize the spread of SARS-CoV-2.❄️

January 10, 2022

❄️IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. AndrewNoymer featured in FOX LA COVID19 hospitalizations eclipse summer surge in Orange County “Orange County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations have surpassed the number reached during the summer surge.❄️

January 7, 2022

Sanghyuk Shin

❄️UCI IDSI director Dr. Sanghyuk Shin & Associate Director Dr. Shruti Gohil featured in OC Register, with case rise. Now, with many people getting together in the holidays there have been “more opportunities for exposure..that’s driving demand.”❄️

January 6, 2022

❄️IDSI Affiliated Faculty Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala featured in LA Times. As the pandemic continues, new variants will emerge, forcing people to balance the need for in-person contact with the risk of infection.

January 5, 2022

❄️UCI professor & director Dr. Lbachir BenMohamed of Cellular and Molecular Immunology and colleagues. Are developing a preemptive vaccine for all coronaviruses that will attack the spike protein and additional proteins in SARS-CoV-2.❄️

January 5, 2022

Philip Felgner

IDSI Faculty Advisory Board Dr. Philip Felgner featured in “Most influential: Meet Orange County’s 125 top influencers for 2021” Whose work over the past 35 years laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines effective against COVID-19.

January 4, 2022

IDSI Faculty Advisory Board Dr. Philip Felgner featured in “Most influential: Meet Orange County’s 125 top influencers for 2021” @ocregister Whose work over the past 35 years laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines effective […]

❄️COVID-19 Hospitalizations And ICU Patients Rise In Orange County. 9 out of 25 hospitals in Orange County have resurrected surge tents outside their facilities. Covid-19 hospitalizations in Orange County have risen from 453 on Friday to 481 Saturday.❄️

January 2, 2022

Orange County to resume counting homeless people with coronavirus safety measures. City Net will help lead volunteers and other organizations to collect the homeless data to compare and contrast 2019 results & view new methodologies and technology.

January 2, 2022

IDSI Affiliate Faculty Dr.@AndrewNoymer featured in Washington Post, “You’re vaccinated and boosted. How should omicron affect your plans?” The Omicron Variant of the COVID-19 has swept the USA reshaping the pandemic-now heading toward its 3rd year.

December 27, 2021