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Less than 0.08 percent of fully vaccinated Americans have tested positive for breakthrough COVID-19 infections. NBC News reports that 125,682 “breakthrough” cases in 38 states represent less than 0.08 percent of the 164.2 million people who have been fully vaccinated since January, which amounts to about one in every 1,300 people. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
Despite many venues and festivals opening back up with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, it’s still not completely safe outside. Wiz Khalifa, for example, just revealed he’s contracted coronavirus without having any symptoms. Wiz took to Twitter to reveal his health status. “Okay loved ones….sooo…..Ya boy got covid,” he tweeted. “No symptoms. Just stay away from me […]
A Sarasota, Florida woman was forcibly taken off a plane this past Wednesday morning after her alleged refusal to put on a mask. According to NBC-2, 23-year-old Adelaide Schrowang was acting unruly and was in violation of the plane’s mask policies. Federal law still requires that every passenger wear a face covering when on a plane. […]
Pet owners who catch COVID-19 could be in danger of infecting their animals, who could in turn reintroduce the virus back to humans. A new study from researchers in the Netherlands discovered that owners who have COVID commonly transmit the disease to their dogs and cats. “If you have COVID-19, you should avoid contact with your cat […]
Health officials in Michigan have confirmed the state’s first human case of Sin Nombre hantavirus, an illness you can catch from rodents (specifically from their urine, saliva, or poop) but not from other people. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) an adult woman had to go to the hospital for a serious pulmonary illness […]
A man in China has tested positive for a rare variant of the bird flu called H10N3. NBC News reports that people can catch the virus from poultry, with cases popping up intermittently in those who work with the domesticated birds. The 41-year-old from the province of Jiangsu is the first person to catch the strain, according to China’s National […]
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 […]
On Monday the Minnesota Department of Health announced they have found a more contagious COVID-19 variant in a local citizen, marking the first confirmed U.S. case of the virus offshoot which had first turned up in Brazil. Note that, with this variant, while it is “more contagious,” it’s not known whether it’s more severe. According to a […]
As the country faces an alarming rise in coronavirus cases, federal officials are sharing bleak predictions for the upcoming winter months. Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, detailed the unsettling projections while speaking at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on Wednesday. The CDC director warned that the country’s COVID-19 death toll could reach up to […]
For the first time, more than 100,000 new COVID-19 infections have been reported in a single day in the U.S. The New York Times database shows the total number of newly reported infections on Wednesday was more than 107,800. Single-day records were also broken in multiple states including Nebraska, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Indiana. This […]
