[ad_1] White House national economic director Brian Deese speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 2, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The White House on Friday warned that the omicron-fueled spike in Covid-19 cases in early January could skew the data in next week’s jobs report, as millions of […]
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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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[ad_1] The number of Western monarch butterflies overwintering in California rebounded to more than 247,000 a year after fewer than 2,000 appeared, but the tally remained far below the millions that were seen in the 1980s, leaders of an annual count said Tuesday. The Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count revealed the highest number of butterflies in […]
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[ad_1] US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned Sunday that the “next few weeks will be tough” as COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant continue to surge. Murthy said that the country is still pushing around 800,000 new cases per day, though some regions, such as New York, have begun to see a plateau in […]
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