The rise of the BA.2 Omicron variant—first in Europe and East Asia and now in the U.S.—makes it clear that the pandemic isn't done with us, and it isn't likely to be anytime soon—unless we achieve very high vaccination ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Spanish health authorities are moving closer to normalizing life in coexistence with COVID-19, by scrapping mandatory quarantines—from next week—for those infected with the virus but showing no or mild symptoms of the ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Health officials in South Korea have instructed crematories to burn more bodies per day and funeral homes to add more refrigerators to store the dead as families struggle with funeral arrangements amid a rise in COVID-19 ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Late last year, preliminary studies revealed that the fast-spreading omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant was likely to evade COVID-19 antibodies but, in many people, less so than expected. Now one of those studies from Karolinska ...
Mar 18, 2022
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(HealthDay)—U.S. infants and children aged 0 to 4 years were hospitalized at a much higher rate during Omicron variant predominance than during delta variant predominance, according to research published in the March 15 ...
Mar 17, 2022
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South Korea reached another daily record in COVID-19 deaths on Thursday as health officials reported more than 621,000 new infections, underscoring a massive omicron surge that has been worse than feared and threatens to ...
Mar 17, 2022
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Omicron appears to have hit America's youngest children much harder than any previous variant of the virus, a new government report shows.
Mar 16, 2022
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The World Health Organization voiced alarm Wednesday that registered COVID cases are once again rising globally, despite testing levels having dropped significantly.
Mar 16, 2022
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When I began drafting this article, COVID cases in Australia were coming down and the situation was stabilizing.
Mar 16, 2022
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Israel's ministry of health said Wednesday it had recorded two cases of new COVID variant, but which officials said they were not unduly worried about.
Mar 16, 2022
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