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Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan will begin testing its entire population, after a handful of positive coronavirus cases were detected there. Wuhan has recorded seven locally transmitted cases – the first local infections in more than a year. The city of 11 million people shot into the spotlight […]
hina is confronting its broadest Covid-19 outbreak since coronavirus first emerged there in late 2019, with the delta variant spreading to places that had been virus-free for months, including the original epicenter of Wuhan. Delta has broken through the country’s virus defenses, which are some of the strictest in the […]
In announcing new guidance on Tuesday, the CDC said vaccinated people should wear face masks in indoor public places with “high” or “substantial” community transmission rates of COVID-19. Data from the CDC shows that designation covers 69.3% of all counties in the United States — 52.2% (1,680 counties) with high community transmission rates […]
The US Food and Drug Administration has expanded the emergency use authorization of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc’s COVID-19 antibody cocktail, enabling its use as a preventive treatment for the illness in certain people. The company said the authorization enables the therapy to be used in people exposed to an infected individual, or […]
La secretaria de Salud capitalina, Oliva López, informó que hasta el momento hay 12 menores hospitalizados por Delta, pero afortunadamente ninguno se encuentra grave. La secretaria de Salud de la Ciudad de México, Oliva López Arellano, dio a conocer que de acuerdo con estimaciones, la variante Delta, identificada primeramente en la India, […]
There has been considerable debate regarding mandatory vaccine uptake among the general population, excluding those who have medical exemptions. The World Health Organization states that “policy-makers should consider specifically whether vaccines authorized for emergency or conditional use meet an evidentiary threshold for safety sufficient for a mandate.” Ontario’s chief medical officer, Dr […]
Viral mutations and variants in the United States are routinely monitored through sequence-based surveillance, laboratory studies, and epidemiological investigations. A US government SARS-CoV-2 Interagency Group (SIG) developed a Variant Classification scheme that defines three classes of SARS-CoV-2 variants: Variant of Interest Variant of Concern Variant of High Consequence The B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 […]
Flooding in Germany. Massive fires in California and Oregon. Searing temperatures killing people globally. Voter suppression and political obstruction…and COVID denial in the face of soaring cases. Sometimes I feel growing despair, feeling helpless that I can’t try to impact each of these individually, let alone all happening simultaneously. This […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A day after it recorded the most new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, Florida on Sunday broke a previous record for current hospitalizations set more than a year ago before vaccines were available. The Sunshine State had 10,207 people hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 […]
Los expertos sitúan la protección de grupo alrededor del 90%, una cifra imposible de conseguir sin vacunar a los niños, que suponen el 11% de la población. La inmunidad de rebaño, esa piedra filosofal que iba a convertir la pandemia en un recuerdo, es una meta que hoy por hoy […]