BRASILIA, Jan 26 (Reuters) – New cases of COVID-19 in the Americas in the past week have been the highest since the pandemic began in 2020 and the very contagious Omicron variant has clearly become the predominant strain, the Pan American Health Organization said on […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The worst could be behind us when it comes to COVID-19 hospitalizations and case numbers in this fourth peak, new University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium projections show. They also show ICU admissions will peak in the next couple weeks. According to […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Health officials are reporting more than 8,000 additional COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma. On Wednesday, data from the Oklahoma State Department of Health shows that the state has had 931,033 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since March of 2020. That’s an increase of 8,160 cases […]
Abbott Laboratories , one of America’s largest producers of rapid tests for Covid-19, said that testing-related sales were $2.3 billion globally in the last three months of 2021 but forecast that demand for the tests will slow this year. Rapid-test sales from Abbott’s BinaxNow, Panbio […]
By Betsy Klein, CNN Updated 1:08 PM ET, Wed January 26, 2022
Supermarket chains Sainsbury’s and Waitrose will be asking people to continue to wear a face covering in their stores when restrictions ease in England on Thursday. Mandatory wearing of face masks is being scrapped as part of the lifting of Plan B measures – with […]
Dr. Kate Maddalena, an assistant professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga in Ontario, told Medical News Today that the study serves as a reminder that society needs to do a better job of diagnosing and […]
Your vaccination records might be on your phone. You could be lucky enough to live in one of the states that let people access their vaccination records from their smartphones. Those states include Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, […]
Omicron has almost completely replaced the previously dominant delta variant of Covid-19 in England, a new study has found, with the vast majority of cases being possible reinfections. Imperial College London’s React study — which has been updated monthly since May 2020 and is funded […]
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