The US is at risk of losing all its recent gains in the battle against Covid-19 as highly contagious variants take advantage of Americans getting lax with safety measures.
"Please hear me clearly: At this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, vaccinating all Mexicans is a matter of responsible national health policy as well as social justice.
"Vaccines will start arriving little by little," he said on February 15, during his daily morning press conference, a week after returning to public activities after contracting Covid-19.
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"Today we launched our vaccination plan and it won't stop. We will press ahead with the goal of vaccinating all the people, according to pre-established priorities," the President added.
On an epidemiological map of the world, the Czech Republic shows up as a tiny island of doom and gloom. While the global number of new coronavirus cases has been dropping for six consecutive weeks, the Central European nation of 10 million has been experiencing near record levels of new infections.
A new, more infectious variant of the virus has spread across the country, pushing Czech hospitals to the brink of collapse. The country's death toll has just surpassed 20,000. Its death rate is among the highest in the world.
Sao Paulo (CNN)Hospital ICUs are reaching their limits across Brazil, as health experts and state officials beg the government to impose stricter lockdown measures to reduce coronavirus transmission.
The country's ICU occupancy rates are the worst since the start of the pandemic, according to a Feb 26 report by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a Brazilian Ministry of Health research institution.
Eighteen of Brazil's 26 states and one federal district have ICU's at over 80% capacity, federal and state data show. Nine of those are at the edge of collapse at over 90% capacity.
The US is at risk of losing all its recent gains in the battle against Covid-19 as highly contagious variants take advantage of Americans getting lax with safety measures.
"Please hear me clearly: At this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Kristen Wiig is "nervous" about leaving her twins when she goes back to work again, but she's hoping to strike the balance successfully. In a Wednesday interview on The Howard Stern Show, the actress touched on learning to navigate her career
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On Thursday, the Ad Council released a PSA featuring some of Warner Bros.'s most recognizable blockbuster stars, all wearing masks in support of COVID-19 prevention. The 30-second PSA packs quite a few film franchises into its short runtime,
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A federal judge has struck down an executive order by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that instituted percentage-based capacity limits on houses of worship in his state’s COVID cluster zones where cases were increasing. Tuesday morning’s decision
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In the race to get people immunized in the U.S., pharmacists made a key discovery -- that vials of Pfizer Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine contain an extra dose. Extracting that extra bit of vaccine, however, hinges upon the availability of a specialized syringe that is in short supply.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (WROC) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo provided an update on COVID-19 in New York State on a conference call with the media on Tuesday. On day 346 of the pandemic the governor reported the following data: Positivity rate: 5.12% 7-day average: 4.3% 138 deaths
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced New York's 7-day average COVID-19 positivity rate has dropped to 4.38 percent, its lowest since December 1."Our post-holiday surge reduction is continuing, and that is the direct result of the toughness of New Yorkers
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Local Health Departments Determine How, Where, When to Schedule Appointments in Their Jurisdictions, as Early as February 14, With Vaccinations Beginning February 15. New Yorkers With Comorbidities and Underlying Conditions Must Provide
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to hold a press briefing Monday on the coronavirus pandemic as the state continues to push forward with its vaccination efforts and business reopenings. The state’s hospitals have until the end of the week before Cuomo
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New York City’s top doctor, David Chokshi, has tested positive for coronavirus, after volunteering at city vaccination clinics so he could become eligible to receive the vaccine. Chokshi, the city’s Health Commissioner, is one of Mayor de Blasio’s
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The vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca not only protects people from serious illness and death but also substantially slows the transmission of the virus, according to a new study — a finding that underscores the importance of mass vaccination as a path out of the pandemic.
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New York City has the tools to test for variants, but screens only 1 percent of new cases. A team of experts from the W.H.O. investigating the origins of the pandemic visited a research center in Wuhan, China.
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