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On Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made a declaration in which he asserted that the COVID-19 pandemic is “a long way from over,” due in part to “confusion and complacency,” and an overall lack of consistent public health measures. Nearly 800 million vaccines have been given out across the globe, but Dr. Tedros said […]
A Florida woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail for intentionally coughing on a cancer patient during the pandemic. According to The Associated Press, the incident took place in June 2020 at a Pier 1 location in Jackson, Florida, where Debra Hunter was filmed arguing with store employees. Customer Heather Sprague began filming the altercation […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared racism a “serious public health threat” that requires immediate action. CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky made the declaration Thursday, citing racism as a major cause of “health inequities, health disparities and disease.” She used the ongoing pandemic to support the agency’s claim, reminding the public the coronavirus has disproportionately affected communities of color; however, Walensky emphasized that […]
A Philippines man allegedly died after being forced to do 300 squats for breaking COVID-19 curfew rules, the New York Post reports. 28-year-old Darren Manaog Peñaredondo was out buying drinking water in the city of General Trias, Cavite when he was apprehended by police. Although he wasn’t committing a dangerous crime, Peñaredondo broke the province’s strict 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. […]
The coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom is now the most dominate strain within the United States—just as health experts predicted. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced the news during Wednesday’s White House press briefing, stating the B.1.1.7 variant “is now the most common lineage circulating in the” U.S. […]
A new study shows that as many as a third of COVID-19 survivors suffer a neurological or psychiatric disorder within six months. The study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal this week, pulled data (in part) from the electronic health records of 236,379 patients who had a COVID-19 diagnosis. As researchers explained when discussing their results, […]
Back in March, President Biden announced that he had directed states and regions in the U.S. to make all adults vaccine-eligible by the beginning of May. Now, that pivotal date is being moved up nearly two weeks. On Tuesday, the Associated Press cited an anonymous White House official as having confirmed that Biden would soon announce […]
An emerging coronavirus variant that experts believe to be partly responsible for the surge in cases in India has now been found in California. The Stanford Clinical Virology Lab identified one case of the “double mutant” variant in the Bay Area and is screening seven other possible cases, spokesperson Lisa Kim told the San Francisco Chronicle. […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit India harder in recent weeks with the country’s largest cities now looking to enforce harsher lockdown measures following a six-month high in infection rates. Reuters reports that cases in the country have been surging for the past month as India becomes the third country with the highest number of infections, only following […]
Rita Wilson says she and her husband Tom Hanks haven’t gotten the vaccine yet. The two were one of the first major celebrities to announce they have tested positive for coronavirus. In March of last year, Hanks and Wilson released a statement from Australia detailing their symptoms. Wilson, who was a surprise co-host on Today […]
