The next COVID wave is already starting in Canada. Here's why this one should be different COVID19
but wastewater signals are falling in Saskatchewan. Public Health Ontario reported Friday that it’s seeing a gradual increase in cases and the number of tests coming back positive, when looking back over the past two weeks. Ottawa is already in a “new wave” of COVID-19, the city’s public health department declared last week.
What we’re witnessing is a vast amount of convergent evolution, said Shapiro, an associate professor in McGill’s department of microbiology and immunology and the Genome Centre. Many of the variants have the same mutations, or combination of mutations, on key sites of the viral genome that allow them to spread more easily in a highly immunized population.Article content
“I don’t want to underplay what this virus has been putting us through — it clearly is able to evolve in all kinds of different directions and surprise us,” Shapiro said.Article content The risk of hospitalization, per infection, is low. “The bad news is that COVID is still rampant at the moment,” Otto said. People are still being hospitalized; people are still getting long COVID. “So, that first wave of protection — having antibodies that recognize and prevent you from getting infected in the first place — is still the one we want to go for.”
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