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COVID risks higher from small indoor events than large outdoor ones: research

Wed, 2022-05-11 17:32 — mike kraft

COVID risks higher from small indoor events than large outdoor ones: research Outdoor events are safer than indoor events in regards to potential COVID-19 transmission, according to a newly released comparative study of two hypothetical events in Austin, Texas. A study from the University of Texas and the city of Austin considered the COVID-19 transmission risks at two events: a business conference with 3,000 attendees during a… YahooNews

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Subvariants fueling COVID rises in more than 50 countries --WHO

Wed, 2022-05-11 17:23 — mike kraft

WHO: Subvariants fueling COVID rises in more than 50 countries The head of the WHO warns that rising cases are creating a volatile situation. CIDRAP

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) today warned that rising COVID-19 cases are creating a volatile situation, posing the most risk for countries with low vaccination coverage.

The United States is one of the countries with rising cases, with hospitalizations now showing a small increase, according to the latest data.

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Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to climb

Wed, 2022-05-11 10:27 — mike kraft

Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to climb The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive-care units, however, remained stable. News Service of Florida Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

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California: With COVID back on the rise, some cities, agencies mulling a return of health mandates

Wed, 2022-05-11 10:22 — mike kraft

With COVID back on the rise, some cities, agencies mulling a return of health mandates San Jose reinstated indoor mask requirement for all its employees ‘out of an abundance of caution’ through at least May 20 Grace Hase The Mercury News

As the Bay Area braces for yet another COVID-19 surge, a few cities and agencies are reinstating indoor mask mandates as the region continues debating the worth of a patchwork of coronavirus-related health orders.

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Growing share of Covid-19 deaths are among vaccinated people, but booster shots substantially lower the risk

Wed, 2022-05-11 09:16 — mike kraft

Growing share of Covid-19 deaths are among vaccinated people, but booster shots substantially lower the risk Since Covid-19 vaccines became widely available, there has been a wide gap in deaths between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. But recent Covid deaths are much more evenly split as highly transmissible variants take hold, vaccine protection wanes and booster uptake stagnates. Deidre McPhillips, CNN CNN

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U.S. schools: In states where Covid cases are again on the rise, schools weigh safety measures, closures

Wed, 2022-05-11 09:06 — mike kraft

In states where Covid cases are again on the rise, schools weigh safety measures, closures "We’ll continue to see additional increases unless there’s a very big difference in the amount of protection that individual people are taking," one local official said. NBC News

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Masks: The bar in the U.S. for reimposing mask mandates is getting higher and higher

Wed, 2022-05-11 08:59 — mike kraft

The bar for reimposing mask mandates is getting higher and higher New York City raised its coronavirus alert level last week in response to rising cases, triggering a recommendation - but not a requirement - that people wear masks in public indoor settings. In Philadelphia, officials reimposed a mask mandate last month after cases rose, only to scrap the rule four days after it took effect. The decisions by the Democratic-run cities illustrate how mask mandates are falling out of favor with American public health authorities in the third year of the pandemic a YahooNews

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Former Heads of State Urge U.S. to Commit $5 Billion to Global Covid Fight

Tue, 2022-05-10 19:49 — mike kraft

WASHINGTON — A group of former heads of state and Nobel laureates is calling on the United States to immediately commit $5 billion to combat the global coronavirus pandemic, and activists are pressing President Biden to take a more forceful leadership role in the response as he convenes world leaders for a Covid-19 summit on Thursday.

“I want America to recognize that the disease is not over anywhere until it’s over everywhere,” Gordon Brown, a former British prime minister who is leading the push for funding, said in an interview Monday. He added, “We must not sleepwalk into the next variant.”

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Analaysis: The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths

Tue, 2022-05-10 19:36 — mike kraft

The 'five pandemics' driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths STAT analyzes the data to show how five key factors worked to drive U.S. Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic, yielding "five pandemics." J. Emory Parker STAT

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One way to start understanding how a country as advanced as the U.S. lost so many people is to look at the ocean of public health data that was gathered as 1 million individual tragedies rippled through civic life.

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Study indicates risks of long COVID symptoms and the incidence of new onset hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease were lower among vaccinated patients with breakthrough infection

Tue, 2022-05-10 19:17 — mike kraft

Do COVID Vaccines Stave Off New Medical Conditions? Large study finds breakthrough cases linked with lower risk of diabetes, hypertension diagnoses Molly Walker medpagetoday

Risks of long COVID symptoms and the incidence of new onset hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease were lower among vaccinated patients with breakthrough infection versus those with COVID who were unvaccinated, a large analysis of medical records in the U.S. suggested.

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