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Black and Hispanic Americans remain far more cautious in their approach to COVID-19 than white Americans--polls

Fri, 2022-04-29 22:18 — mike kraft

Racial split on COVID-19 endures as restrictions ease in US Black and Hispanic Americans remain far more cautious in their approach to COVID-19 than white Americans, recent polls show, reflecting diverging preferences on how to deal with the pandemic as federal, state and local restrictions fall by the wayside. AP NEWS

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U.S. Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows

Fri, 2022-04-29 21:48 — mike kraft

Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows The pandemic’s toll is no longer falling almost exclusively on those who chose not to get shots, according to a Post analysis, as the elderly and immunocompromised have a harder time dodging increasingly contagious strains. Washington Post

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Fauci said the US is 'out of the pandemic phase.' What does that mean?

Thu, 2022-04-28 22:56 — mike kraft

Fauci said the US is 'out of the pandemic phase.' What does that mean? The worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic may be over in the United States, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who recently said we are "out of the pandemic phase." ABC News ABC News

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More disease victims ahead with vaccines delayed and measles cases up, WHO and UNICEF say

Thu, 2022-04-28 22:42 — mike kraft

'Perfect storm' of disease ahead with vaccines delayed and measles cases up, WHO and UNICEF say The World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund warned of an increased risk of measles spread, with worldwide cases up nearly 80% so far in 2022 compared with 2021. Virginia Langmaid, CNN CNN

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Overview: Biden limits time at big press annnual dinner; various developments in asia

Thu, 2022-04-28 20:55 — mike kraft

Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus Beijing closed some public spaces and stepped up checks at others on Thursday, as most of the city's 22 million residents embarked on more COVID-19 mass testing aimed at averting a Shanghai-like lockdown. Reuters Reuters

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Moderna seeks FDA approval for COVID shots for youngest children

Thu, 2022-04-28 20:28 — mike kraft

Moderna seeks to be 1st with COVID shots for littlest kids Moderna on Thursday asked U.S. regulators to authorize low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 6, a long-awaited move toward potentially opening shots for millions of tots by summer. AP NEWS

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Some experts fear U.S. may default to annual Covid boosters without sufficient data

Thu, 2022-04-28 05:46 — mike kraft

Experts fear U.S. may default to annual Covid boosters without sufficient data A number of vaccine experts are concerned the U.S. may be sleepwalking into a policy of recommending annual Covid-19 vaccine boosters — without having generated the evidence to show they are actually needed. Helen Branswell STAT

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The US is out of the Covid-19 pandemic phase, Dr. Fauci says

Thu, 2022-04-28 01:44 — mike kraft

For now, the U.S. is 'not in the pandemic phase,' Fauci says Though the coronavirus remains a deadly public health emergency around the globe, the United States is no longer in a pandemic phase, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden. PBS NewsHour

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“We don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths [each day],” Fauci told the PBS NewsHour’s anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff on Tuesday.

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Rapid at-home Covid tests seem to be effective in detecting omicron variant --research

Wed, 2022-04-27 21:35 — mike kraft

My At-Home Rapid Test Is Negative, But Could I Still Have COVID?

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China tests millions of people in effort to keep Covid outbreak from spiralling

Wed, 2022-04-27 21:13 — mike kraft

China's capital in race to detect COVID cases, avoid Shanghai's distress Millions of people in Beijing took their second COVID-19 tests of the week as the Chinese capital tried to keep an outbreak numbering in the dozens from spiralling into a crisis. Eduardo Baptista,Brenda Goh Reuters

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