[ad_1] CLEVELAND — As the U.S. continues to deal with the omicron surge, many small businesses owners are struggling to stay afloat. Now, they’re calling on Congress to provide additional federal aid to help them keep their heads above water. Data from a new national survey conducted by Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Voices reports […]
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[ad_1] The omicron surge is on its decline, as new cases are plummeting as fast as they climbed, providing hope for relief from the record-breaking wave of infection. As the country begins to relax, the question is: What’s next? In the last two weeks, Pennsylvania’s average daily number of new infections has dropped to about […]
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[ad_1] ANN ARBOR, Mich. – An ongoing shortage of bus drivers and sickness among staff has led to the temporary suspensions of 14 bus routes serving Ann Arbor Public School students, the district announced. The change will start Monday and extends until Monday, Feb. 11. Here’s which routes will be suspended: 33 Pattengill/Tappan 38 Pittsfield/Huron […]
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[ad_1] The long lines outside testing sites have shortened. Appointments have opened up. Results are coming back faster. The winter coronavirus testing crisis is over. The omicron surge peaked in early January just at the moment when people needed coronavirus tests the most: back from the December holiday season, surrounded by friends who had caught […]
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[ad_1] As the pandemic stretches into a third year, the Omicron variant has added another speed bump in New York City’s road back to normalcy, injecting fresh uncertainty into the economic outlook and threatening to worsen the city’s already lopsided recovery. Office workers were sent home again, reversing steady increases in subway ridership and hurting […]
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[ad_1] Two years into a pandemic that has wreaked havoc in Japan and around the world, some experts believe the endgame may be in sight. That optimism is largely due to improved treatment options, a high vaccination rate and the milder nature of the omicron variant, which has spurred an unprecedented rise in cases nationwide […]
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[ad_1] Public health officials say Illinois’ Omicron resurgence is showing promising signs of an “exponential decay” that’s almost as dramatic as its meteoric rise, but its damaging effects are still being felt statewide. The Illinois Department of Public Health on Thursday reported 14,422 new COVID-19 infections that lowered the seven-day average case positivity rate to […]
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[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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[ad_1] A peak in coronavirus infections likely has occurred in Minnesota, but Mayo Clinic forecasters on Wednesday warned that the state’s fifth pandemic wave is far from over. Mayo’s updated modeling predicted a peak in Minnesota’s confirmed COVID-19 cases on Jan. 29, but the lag in reporting infections means that viral spread is already declining, […]
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[ad_1] Jan 26 (Reuters) – U.S. health insurer Anthem Inc (ANTM.N) on Wednesday issued a conservative annual profit forecast and warned that the highly contagious Omicron variant was likely to drive up treatment, vaccination and testing costs in the first quarter. Since the start of the pandemic, profits of health insurers have come under pressure […]
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