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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 12: Flu Eclipses Covid in Bay Area, Chinese Emergency Call Centers Overwhelmed
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 977th day of the pandemic.
Donning a face mask may seem like something you did just in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, but it may be time to rethink the use of masks as a strategy to fight the tripledemic of Covid, influenza, and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 11: New York City Issues Mask Advisory, Italian President Tests Positive
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 976th day of the pandemic.
Donning a face mask may seem like something you did just in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, but it may be time to rethink the use of masks as a strategy to fight the tripledemic of Covid, influenza, and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 10: The FDA’s New Math for Children’s Boosters, Congress Releases Pandemic Report
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 975th day of the pandemic.
Satirist Tom Lehrer’s classic, “The New Math,” explains that “you can’t take 3 from 2, 2 is less than 3, so you look at the 4 in the tens place” in trying to explain how children were being taught arithmetic in the 1960s. To make things …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 9: Los Angeles Mask Mandate Looms, China Prepares to End More Zero-Covid Restrictions
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 974th day of the pandemic.
Some medical experts in China believe that the country should change the official name for Covid-19 to reflect how the virus has mutated.
Gu Xiaohong, a leading authority on traditional Chinese medicine, was quoted in the state-run Beijing Daily newspaper that the coronavirus’ name in Chinese, which …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 8: China is Loosening Its Restrictions at Great Risk to Everyone, U.S. Case Figures Increase Dramatically, and Today’s Statistics
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 973rd day of the pandemic.
The number of new coronavirus infections in the United States was 150,000 on Wednesday, a nearly four-month high but that may be a drop in the bucket compared to what China is expected to experience as it dismantles its much-criticized “zero-Covid” machine.
The country is loosening its …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 7: China Could See 1 Million Deaths in Scrapping ‘Zero Covid,’ Fauci Criticizes Ideological Divide in Vaccines
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 972nd day of the pandemic.
The latest trend these days is for everyone to be sick, albeit with good reason.
For the past almost three years, social distancing and masking kept seasonal viruses such as the flu and RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, at bay. Now they’re roaring back with renewed fervor.
The …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 5: Chinese Hackers Stole Millions in Pandemic Funds, Australia’s PM Tests Positive
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 970th day of the pandemic.
No sooner had state and local governments in the United States begun to disburse pandemic-related benefits such as unemployment in early 2020 than cybercriminals began to go to work. Until recently, the only documented instances of such crimes, however, were by domestic fraudsters and most of …
