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How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?

Tue, 2022-05-17 05:12 — mike kraft

How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus? A virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body’s defenses and waves of infections two, maybe three times a year — this may be the future of COVID-19, some scientists now fear. The central problem is that the coronavirus has become more adept at reinfecting people.

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Pfizer study estimates its vaccine helped prevent over 110,000 Covid deaths

Tue, 2022-05-17 04:55 — mike kraft

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South Africa experiences a new surge of COVID from versions of omicron

Tue, 2022-05-17 04:38 — mike kraft

South Africa in new surge of COVID from versions of omicron JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalizations, but not increases in severe cases and deaths, said Professor Marta Nunes, a researcher at Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. AP NEWS

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New York City health chief: urges people to wear masks indoors; 'high' COVID alert level coming

Tue, 2022-05-17 04:04 — mike kraft

NYC health chief: Wear masks indoors; 'high' COVID alert level coming New York City is approaching a ‘high’ level of COVID-19 alert, according to Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan. In a tweet issued Monday morning, Vasan said he was urging all New Yorkers to wear a mask while indoors. FOX 5 NY FOX 5 New York

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Raising the alert level from medium to high indicates an increased and significant level of community spread.

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How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While COVID Killed 1 Million Americans

Mon, 2022-05-16 19:56 — mike kraft

How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While COVID Killed 1 Million Americans MELBOURNE, Australia — If the United States had the same COVID death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved. For many Americans, imagining what might have been will be painful. But especially now, at the milestone of 1 million deaths in the United States, the nations that did a better job of keeping people alive show what Americans could have done differently and what might still need to change.

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How North Korea's COVID-19 outbreak could ignite a major health crisis

Sat, 2022-05-14 05:34 — mike kraft

Explainer: How North Korea's COVID-19 outbreak could ignite a major health crisis North Korea's admission that it is battling an "explosive" COVID-19 outbreak has raised concerns that the virus could devastate a country with an under-resourced health system, limited testing capabilities, and no vaccine programme. Soo-Hyang Choi,Josh Smith Reuters

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55% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Had Symptoms at 2 Years

Fri, 2022-05-13 05:04 — mike kraft

55% of Hospitalized COVID Patients Still Had Symptoms at 2 Years 'Ongoing follow-up of COVID-19 survivors is essential,' researcher says Molly Walker medpagetoday

More than half of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, during the initial outbreak reported at least one symptom a couple of years later, researchers found.

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COVID-19 cases falling everywhere, except Americas and Africa--WHO

Thu, 2022-05-12 20:15 — mike kraft

WHO: COVID-19 falling everywhere, except Americas and Africa GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide has continued to fall except in the Americas and Africa, the World Health Organization said in its latest assessment of the pandemic. AP NEWS

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The decline comes as Europe marked a COVID-19 death milestone: 2 million on the continent.

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Americans must not ‘grow numb,’ Biden says, as U.S. marks 1 million Covid deaths

Thu, 2022-05-12 18:08 — mike kraft

Biden marks 1 million U.S. Covid deaths, urges Americans not to ‘grow numb’ “To heal, we must remember. We must remain vigilant against this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible," President Joe Biden said Thursday. NBC News

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