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Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Jan. 10: Flight Cancellations Continue, U.S. Could See 1 Million New Cases Per Day, Says Fauci
As the average number of new daily infections began to tilt perilously close to 700,000, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist, said that the number could go even higher.
“I would not be surprised at all if we go over a million cases per day,” Fauci said in an interview Saturday with the news program “News 4 New York” at the flagship NBC affiliate station in the Big …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Jan. 9: Number of ‘Critical’ Covid Cases Jumps Overnight, U.K. Death Toll Hits 150,000
The number of coronavirus cases deemed critical jumped overnight from 0.2% of the total to 1% of the total. The figure had hovered in the 0.2% to 0.3% range in recent weeks.
Virtually all hospitalized coronavirus patients have one thing in common: They are not vaccinated, and the same is the case for those patients in intensive-care units.
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Forty hospitals in New York State – most in the central and northern …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Jan. 6: CDC Authorizes Boosters for 12-15 Year Olds, U.K. Reduces Travel Restrictions
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved third doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for adolescents ages 12 through 15, a move that will allow the first jabs to take place Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration had approved the plan on Monday, paving the way for the move by the CDC.
U.S. troops on military bases in Japan are being ordered to don face masks, United States Forces …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Jan. 2: Fauci Promises ‘Further Clarification’ on New CDC Guidelines, U.K., Ireland See Record Cases
Amidst concerns about the shortened isolation period that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommended for those who test positive but remain asymptomatic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Biden administration’s chief medical advisor, said that the agency will issue “further clarification.”
“People are getting concerned about why [we don’t] test people at that time,” Fauci said on an interview with CNN. “I, myself, feel that that’s a reasonable thing …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Jan. 1: Omicron May Peak in Mid-January, Europe Reports Record New Cases, and Today’s Statistics
Following news from South African that it has passed the peak of its omicron-driven coronavirus case surge, scientists at Columbia University said they believe that the peak there will crest in the second week of January.
The research from Columbia indicates that the country could very well peak by January 9 with a rate of 2.5 million new infections per week, although researchers cautioned that that number may be as high …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 30: WHO Warns of New Variants and ‘Tsunami of Cases,’ Life in N.Y.C. Grinds to a Halt
The head of the World Health Organization issued a warning saying that new variants could emerge that are fully resistant to current vaccines, rendering them useless, and called for nations to work together to improve access to Covid vaccines.
“Delta and Omicron are now twin threats driving up cases to record numbers, leading to spikes in hospitalization and deaths,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director-general, at a news conference …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 29: Pandemic Case Records Shattered in Europe and U.S., ‘Omicron and Delta Are Coming to Your Party’
Great Britain, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, and the United States all set records for new daily Covid cases this week. Health officials believe that the new omicron variant is driving the surge in infections.
The United States recorded 512,553 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, surpassing the previous pandemic high of 294,015, which was reached on January 8, 2021.
The results were likely skewed due …
