There are 88 countries in an outbreak which have increased by 28 countries since the pandemic attenuated after the ancestral Omicron strain began to wane. The mutations that resulted in BA.4x and BA.5x resulted in the expansion of the pandemic. Those countries in an outbreak are rank-ordered from worst to least bad with Greece leading
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The Global SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Project provides not only daily surveillance rates for ~217 countries but also signals which countries have alarming growth and are at risk for an outbreak without corrective action by public health leaders. By clicking on the map below, the end-user has a vista of countries that turn blue as they report the index SARS-CoV-2 cases identified within a given country. The countries remain blue when the number of cases is stable and
Summary At a global level, the pandemic is contracting, however, that is just an average which eclipses significant SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks for individual countries. The pandemic has shifted from Latin America, East Asia, South Asia to Europe and Central Asia. Also, the Caribbean is experiencing explosive growth driven primarily by a combination of Delta and dearth
Figure 1. North America’s SARS-CoV-2019 Outbreak on October 15, 2021 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccinations: Lessons from California. As a country, the United States has been in an outbreak, defined by the CDC as >10 new daily cases of SARS-CoV-2 transmissions per 100,000 population, throughout most of the pandemic. The most recent spike of cases, fueled by
Egon Anderson Ozer, MD PhD, is a physician-scientist in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Director of the Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution (CPGME) in the Institute for Global Health. His work focuses on genomic surveillance of microbial pathogens, most recently the SARS-CoV-2 virus,
Sarah Welch is the Director of Evaluation Research in the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics. Sarah and her team provide high quality, state of the art evaluation services to Northwestern faculty, staff, and community organizations working on public health research, policy, and programming efforts.
Theresa B Oehmke is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Oehmke earned a Master’s of Science degree in Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2016 and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Environmental Engineering Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2015. Oehmke’s research is in Environmental Fluid Mechanics. Specifically, she
Dr. Danielle Resnick is a Senior Research Fellow and Governance Theme Leader at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and leads the CGIAR’s Policies Institutions and Markets research on Political Economy of Policy Processes. Between 2010-2013, she was a Research Fellow at the United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Dr. Brandt completed a general Preventive Medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in 1989 and a post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the National Library of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in 1997. She is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on issues related to the design,