Local health experts see an increase in false-negative COVID-19 rapid tests

Local health experts see an increase in false-negative COVID-19 rapid tests

[ad_1] WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW)– Health experts say they are seeing a new tendency, an increase in false-negative COVID-19 rapid tests. This week KSN News talked with a local advanced nurse to learn more. Luisa Taylor works for Free State Health Care and says since winter break the spike in false-negative rapid tests has increased significantly. […]

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Health Ministry believes Omicron wave has passed its peak

Health Ministry believes Omicron wave has passed its peak

[ad_1] Health Ministry officials believe that Israel’s Omicron surge has peaked and is now trending down, but warned that the country could still face two or three more difficult weeks. On Thursday, 57,539 new cases were recorded, the ministry said, down from an average of some 85,000 earlier in the week. However, there was still […]

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Denver, Tri-County Health Dept. considering dropping mask mandates

Denver, Tri-County Health Dept. considering dropping mask mandates

[ad_1] DENVER — Colorado’s COVID-19 rate is quickly declining, giving health experts new hope for the coming months and leading them to believe it might be possible to drop mask mandates in the metro area in the coming days or weeks. During a press conference Thursday, state officials spoke at length about the quickly decreasing […]

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Youngkin health chief Colin Greene will tackle covid-19 his way in Virginia

Youngkin health chief Colin Greene will tackle covid-19 his way in Virginia

[ad_1] Greene, 63, inherits an agency on the front lines of responding to a pandemic that had killed 16,127 Virginians as of Friday. He is well-liked in northwestern Virginia, where he was health director in a region spanning four counties and the city of Winchester, for more than four years before Youngkin tapped him for […]

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Military medical personnel to support Md. health care workers treating COVID-19

Military medical personnel to support Md. health care workers treating COVID-19

[ad_1] A military medical team is coming to Maryland to support health care workers treating COVID-19 patients.  A military medical team is coming to Maryland to support health care workers treating COVID-19 patients. The 40-person team from the U.S. Navy will help at the Adventist HealthCare Alternate Care Site in Takoma Park. This comes at […]

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Health Officials Tracking New ‘Stealth’ Omicron Variant Spreading In Europe, Detected In U.S. – CBS New York

Health Officials Tracking New ‘Stealth’ Omicron Variant Spreading In Europe, Detected In U.S. – CBS New York

[ad_1] NEW JERSEY (CBSNewYork) — The first cases of a new Omicron subvariant are beginning to be seen in the Tri-State Area. They arrived as an Appeals Court prepares to rule on the New York state mask mandate, CBS2’s Dick Brennan reported Thursday. READ MORE: Just Days After Testing Positive For COVID, Sarah Palin Spotted […]

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Chart showing spikes in hospitalizations in January 2021 and January 2022

COVID-19: Significant Improvements Are Needed for Overseeing Relief Funds and Leading Responses to Public Health Emergencies

[ad_1] What GAO Found New U.S. COVID-19 cases and virus variants continue to challenge the nation. New daily reported cases increased sharply from December 21, 2021 to January 3, 2022 due primarily to the emergence of the Omicron variant. Cases during this time generally exceeded 380,000, surpassing the daily case rate reported during the emergence […]

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Omicron surge in Berkeley is peaking, health officer says

Omicron surge in Berkeley is peaking, health officer says

[ad_1] COVID-19 case numbers from the city show a peaking of cases in the last week of January. Credit: City of Berkeley The omicron surge in Berkeley — which began in late December and sent COVID-19 case numbers skyrocketing to levels five times higher than the previous record last January — is now peaking, Berkeley’s […]

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Cooper University Health Care Donates 200,000 KN95 Masks

Cooper University Health Care Donates 200,000 KN95 Masks

[ad_1] Cooper University Health Care Donates 200,000 KN95 Masks Camden County Metro Police and Sheriff’s Department of Assist in Distribution   (CAMDEN, NJ) — To help the community prevent the spread of COVID-19, Cooper University Health Care will provide 200,000 non-medical grade KN95 masks to be distributed throughout Camden with the assistance of the Camden County […]

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