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New preparedness plan requires more funding to restock the nation’s stockpile of tests, antiviral pills and masks. US President Joe Biden‘s administration has laid out a new national blueprint to combat COVID-19, including any possible future outbreaks of new variants, without shutting down schools and businesses. The White House on Wednesday called on US lawmakers […]
During that time frame, Michigan’s covid hospitalizations rose by nearly 1,900, CDC data shows, marking the highest figure for a single state. Hospitalizations also went up by more than 1,400 patients each in Ohio and Pennsylvania and by more than 900 in Indiana. The four states, which have some of the highest per capita current […]
While fears of the omicron variant continued to wane, as seen through the rally in global stock markets, global tally for the coronavirus-borne illness rose to a total of 266.6 million on Friday and the death toll climbed to 5.27 million, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. leads the . . […]
But public health experts nationwide are stressing that the overwhelming majority of the nation’s coronavirus cases are still caused by the highly transmissible delta variant, which has led to some of the worst spikes of the pandemic. By early Tuesday, the United States had tallied nearly 49.3 million coronavirus cases since the first infection surfaced […]
“Though it’s too early to really make any definitive statements about it, thus far, it does not look like there’s a great degree of severity to it,” Fauci told CNN’s State of the Union, as he expressed confidence that existing vaccines will confer “some degree, and maybe a considerable degree, of protection against the omicron […]
The seven-day moving average of new cases was 121,437 as of Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Prior to this week, the US last topped the 100,000-cases-a-day mark in early October. Also on the rise is the number of Covid-19 deaths, with a seven-day average of 1,651 people dying from the virus […]
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) – The Delta variant is still Americans’ leading coronavirus health threat even as more reports surface of the Omicron strain in the United States on Friday amid concern that winter holidays may further the spread, experts said. While Omicron has been grabbing headlines as the newest coronavirus variant, the predominant U.S. […]
Asia-Pacific countries should boost their healthcare capacity and fully vaccinate their people to prepare for a surge in COVID-19 cases heightened by the Omicron variant, officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as the United States reported at least 10 new cases of the variant in at least five states. Earlier, the […]
Patients wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot at a mobile vaccination station on 59th Street below Central Park, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York. Health officials say multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York. John Minchillo/AP hide caption toggle caption John Minchillo/AP Patients wait to receive […]