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Jan 27 2021
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States lift restrictions gradually amid fears of new variant
States are loosening their coronavirus restrictions on restaurants and other businesses because of improved infection and hospitalization numbers but are moving gradually and cautiously, in part because of the more contagious variant taking hold in the U.S.
While the easing could cause case rates to rise, health experts say it can work if done in a measured way and if the public remains
Associated PressDec 04 2021
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The Variant Hunters: Inside South Africa’s Effort to Stanch Dangerous Mutations
A few months ago, Sizakele Mathe, a community health worker in this sprawling hillside township on the edge of the city of Durban, was notified by a clinic that a neighbor had stopped picking up her medication. It was a warning sign that she had likely stopped taking the antiretroviral tablet that suppresses her H.I.V. infection.
That was a threat to her own health — and, in the era of
New York Times (News)Aug 24 2023
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COVID hospitalizations climb 22% this week — and the CDC predicts further increases as new variants spread
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now forecasting an acceleration in new COVID-19 hospitalizations over the coming month, the agency said this week, replacing a previous projection that admissions would "remain stable or have an uncertain trend."
It comes as health officials are racing to study a new highly mutated COVID variant called BA.2.86, nicknamed "Pirola" on
CBS News (Online)May 03 2024
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Scientists Backtrack, Admit Proposed Virus Experiments Could Have Been Done In China
Scientists Backtrack, Admit Proposed Virus Experiments Could Have Been Done In China Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scientists with close ties to China and the U.S. government is now saying that risky experiments he proposed—which some experts believe could have led to the creation of SARS-CoV-2—may have been done, deviating from earlier statements. Peter
ZeroHedgeMay 03 2024
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Mike Viola: Bravo to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s embrace of free market economics for housing
Rent in Chicago is climbing at record rates. As of March, median one-bedroom rental prices saw a 21% year-over-year increase, even as real estate markets have slowed down and home prices have stalled. Meanwhile, overall demand for rentals is in decline: Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Chicago’s population was shrinking, but since then, the city has been losing residents left and right.
Chicago TribuneAug 27 2023
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Biden Plans to Request Funds to Develop New Coronavirus Vaccine
U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before.
Officials are already expecting updated COVID-19 vaccines that contain one version of the omicron strain, called XBB.1.5. It's an important change from today's combination
Voice of America (VOA)Jul 14 2021
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Delta Variant Widens Gulf Between ‘Two Americas’: Vaccinated and Unvaccinated
Even as many Americans celebrate the apparent waning of the pandemic, the thrum of concern over the so-called Delta variant grows steadily louder.
The variant, the most contagious version yet of the coronavirus, accounts for more than half of new infections in the United States, federal health officials reported this month. The spread of the variant has prompted a vigorous new
New York Times (News)Feb 08 2023
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Charts that track COVID-19 variants, vaccination rates and hospitalizations in Nebraska
Lincoln Journal StarNov 30 2021
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Omicron variant may have reached Europe earlier than thought
Economic powerhouses Japan and France reported their first cases of the omicron variant Tuesday, while new findings indicate the mutant coronavirus was already in Europe close to a week before South Africa sounded the alarm.
The Netherlands’ RIVM health institute disclosed that patient samples dating from Nov. 19 and 23 were found to contain the variant. It was last Wednesday, Nov. 24,
Associated PressApr 20 2024
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Tesla announces price cut for certain models
Elon Musk's Tesla slashed the U.S. prices of its Model Y, Model X and Model S vehicles by $2,000 each on Friday after first-quarter deliveries came up short of expectations. The valuable electric-vehicle maker lowered the prices for its Model Y base variant to $42,990, while the long-range and performance variants now cost $47,990 and $51,490, respectively, the Tesla website now shows. "
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