[ad_1] MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – The map on Alabama’s COVID-19 dashboard is still solid red. Community transmission remains high, but that could change soon. “Our hope and expectation is they continue to fall,” said Dr. Wes Stubblefield with the Alabama Department of Public Health. Community transmission remains high in Alabama.(Source: ADPH) The doctor explained that […]
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[ad_1] Marica Romero, left, the Westside Community Center assistant manager, and Angelia Jaramillo, the manager, hand out Covid 19 at home test kits at a drive-thru distribution event sponsored by the New Mexico Department of Health . Health officials are stressing the importance of at-home tests in fighting the pandemic moving forward. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal) […]
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[ad_1] A prisoner advocacy group has called on Minnesota corrections officials to reinstate an early release policy for inmates with medical conditions that make them vulnerable to COVID-19 complications. At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, the Minnesota Department of Corrections said it would implement the program for those at “grave risk” of COVID-19, […]
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[ad_1] The BA.2 subvariant of the omicron variant doesn’t seem to be any more severe than the original form of omicron, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Vaccines also protect people from the BA.2 variant in a similar manner to how they protect those with the omicron variant, per Reuters. What they’re saying: “Looking at […]
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[ad_1] (WAOW) — The Biden administration’s free N95 mask program is beginning to rollout, so you may start to see masks in stores this month. Big box stores like Sam’s Club and Walmart have already begun handing masks out. CVS is just beginning to receive their shipments, and will be handing them out on a […]
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[ad_1] High levels of Covid-19 deaths hurt fourth-quarter results in MetLife Inc.’s MET 0.65% business of providing employer-sponsored life insurance as the Delta variant persisted in the U.S., but the outsize payouts were more than offset by unusually strong investment gains. The New York company’s net income soared to $1.18 billion, up from $124 million […]
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[ad_1] Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. After an anxious January marked by a wave of COVID-19 infections that pushed Texas hospitals and intensive care units to their limits, the number of Texans in the hospital with COVID-19 across the state […]
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[ad_1] The United States might need to change its guidance toward masking now that there’s so much immunity to the coronavirus, said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. What he said: “We have a much more contagious variant that is probably going to continue to circulate and you have […]
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[ad_1] Montgomery County, Maryland, officials announced on Wednesday that COVID-19 cases continue to drop, but cautioned residents to get boosted and to stay masked up. Montgomery County, Maryland, officials announced on Wednesday that COVID-19 cases continue to drop, but cautioned residents to get boosted and to stay masked up. The average number of cases in […]
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[ad_1] Boston, MA – The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant’s “milder” outcomes are likely due to more population immunity compared to earlier waves of the pandemic rather than the virus’s properties, according to a paper by William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology and co-director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of […]
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