BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Officials with Southern University say Friday, Jan. 21 is the last day for all students and employees to comply with their Spring 2022 COVID-19 vaccination protocols. All students and employees submit proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or an exemption request […]
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OSDH: Oklahoma COVID-19 cases jump by 10,000
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma health experts are reporting 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in the Sooner State. On Wednesday, data from the Oklahoma State Department of Health shows that the state has had 852,997 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since March of 2020. That’s an increase of 10,001 […]
Utah Senate president tested positive for COVID-19 on first day of session
Utah Senate President Stuart Adams spent the first day of the Utah Legislature’s 2022 general session in person and inconsistently wearing a mask even though he tested positive for COVID-19 twice Tuesday morning. Confirmation that Adams tested positive twice Tuesday morning only came after Senate […]
Orange County delays homeless count amid COVID-19 surge
Orange County is postponing its biannual homeless count until the end of February in light of the COVID-19 surge, officials said. “The county of Orange is among several Continuums of Care in Southern California that have been approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and […]
Watch Live: Gov. Pritzker to Give COVID-19 Update for Illinois at 2:30 p.m.
NOTE: NBC Chicago will offer a live stream of the governor’s address at 2:30 p.m. in the player above. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is set to give a COVID-19 update for Illinois Wednesday afternoon. The governor is scheduled to address the state at 2:30 p.m. […]
Covid-19, Endemic or Not, Will Still Make Us Poorer
The prospect that Covid-19 is transitioning from pandemic to endemic has brought out the bulls on Wall Street. “Meaningful upside to our medium-term economic outlook,” writes Bank of America Corp. “A positive for risk assets,” says JPMorgan Chase Co. The “silver lining” of the “highly […]
Bella and Gigi Hadid’s aunt Ghada dies after a heart attack, COVID-19 and pneumonia
Bella and Gigi Hadid’s aunt Ghada Hadid passed away on Wednesday morning in Washington, DC. The native of Palestine had suffered a heart attack this week after coming down with COVID-19 and pneumonia, which put her in Intensive Care unit. Ghada’s brother Mohamed Hadid, 73 – […]
New COVID-19 cases due to Omicron in Ontario expected to peak this month, health minister says
New cases of COVID-19 linked to the Omicron variant are expected to peak this month in Ontario, Health Minister Christine Elliott said Wednesday, while an announcement on lifting current public health restrictions is likely coming later this week. “We are starting to see glimmers of hope. […]
How does COVID-19 misinformation compare with other health topics?
The researchers analyzed about 325 million Facebook and Twitter posts from March 8 to May 1, 2020, comparing them to health-related posts from the same period in 2019. The team collected a “snapshot” of posts from 3 early months of the pandemic that is about […]
Covid-19 pandemic: Mumbai logs 6,032 new cases and 12 deaths
Mumbai on Wednesday reported 6,032 new coronavirus positive cases, 117 less as compared to the previous day, and 12 fresh fatalities, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. With this, the city’s infection tally rose to 10,17,999 and death toll to 16,488, while the recovery count […]