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But the decision provoked criticism and alarm from other corners of the public health field. Meegan Zikus, a bioethicist at Grand Valley State University in Michigan who is immunocompromised, said lifting the mandate “completely disregards the safety and well-being of people who are at high risk.” “Lifting Covid testing for international travel entirely negates that […]
by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed. Posted: May 20, 2022 / 08:44 PM EST / Updated: May 20, 2022 / 08:45 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The monkeypox virus was first detected in a lab in monkeys back in the 1950s. But now, it’s back and infecting people. News 8 spoke with Dr. Jennifer Chivensky, an […]
Babies and children younger than age 5 were hospitalized with coronavirus at much higher rates during the latest U.S. surge, when the highly transmissible Omicron variant was dominant, compared with earlier periods in the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalizations of these children were about five times higher during the […]
HONG KONG — For two years, Hong Kong had largely avoided a major coronavirus outbreak with tight border controls and strict social distancing measures. Then Omicron triggered an explosion of infections, exposing the city’s failure to prepare its older — and most at risk — residents for the worst. In a matter of weeks, the […]
People wait in line at Macy’s before Black Friday sales in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 26, 2021. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon Register now for FREE unlimited access to reuters.com Register Nov 26 (Reuters) – Shares of U.S. department-store operators slid on Friday as the detection of a new coronavirus variant […]
Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday he expects the coronavirus to become an endemic virus in the U.S. and other Western countries after the recent surge in delta variant infections calms down. “We’re transitioning from this being a pandemic to being more of an endemic virus, at least here in the United States and […]
“The university will no longer provide quarantine or isolation housing, meals, or transportation for students who need to isolate or quarantine,” Dr. Plowman wrote in a boldfaced warning. Students, she strongly suggested, are on their own — a push perhaps to get the vaccine, particularly since coronavirus cases have doubled in Knoxville. Arizona’s public universities […]
This Wednesday, June 26, 2019 photo shows an aerial view of the Yup’ik village of Stebbins on the Norton Sound coast in Western Alaska. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News/AP) The Alaska village of Stebbins is in community lockdown after a surge in Covid-19 cases, according to the regional health organization. Norton Sound Health Corp. announced the […]
“Our vaccines are working exceptionally well,” Walensky told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “They continue to work well for Delta, with regard to severe illness and death — they prevent it. But what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.” “If you’re going home to somebody who has not been vaccinated, to somebody who can’t get vaccinated, […]
A GOP official from Texas who regularly espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask views online has died from COVID-19, five days after posting a meme on Facebook questioning the wisdom of getting inoculated against COVID. Dickinson City Council member and State Republican Executive Committee member H. Scott Apley, 45, died in a local hospital around 3 a.m. […]