SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state Board of Health has decided that COVID-19 vaccines will not be required for students to attend K-12 schools this fall. The Seattle Times reports the Board of Health made the decision in a unanimous vote Wednesday. Last fall, the board created a separate advisory group tasked with researching whether
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The federal transportation mask mandate is being extended for another 15 days, meaning individuals traveling aboard airplanes, trains and on public transportation in the United States will be required to wear a mask until at least early May. The mandate, the federal government confirmed on Wednesday,
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN Covid-19 case numbers have begun to edge up in the United States, and nearly all of them are caused by the Omicron subvariant BA.2. According to the latest estimates from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, BA.2 caused 86% of new Covid-19 cases nationwide last week. In some ways,
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN A recent outbreak of Covid-19 cases among officials in Washington, with dozens testing positive after attending the Gridiron Club Dinner, has put the concept of Covid-19 superspreading back in the spotlight. Covid-19 superspreading, which involves the virus spreading at a single event on a larger scale than what is typically expected,
Continue ReadingBy Mirna Alsharif Three universities in the Washington, DC, region — American, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins — have partially reinstated campus mask mandates following an uptick in Covid-19 cases in the area, according to statements from the institutions. American University (AU) reinstated an indoor masking requirement effective Tuesday, where “masks will be required in all
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business Factories shut down, new model launches delayed and sales plunging. China’s huge car market has been thrown into disarray by the country’s latest Covid surge, with stringent lockdowns across several cities hitting vehicle production. China’s worst Covid outbreak in two years has prompted authorities to ramp up the country’s zero-Covid
Continue ReadingBy David Culver, CNN The distant echo of a megaphone blares most mornings from the narrow laneway where I live in Shanghai, summoning me and my neighbors from our homes for our mandatory Covid test. Mask on and cell phone in hand, I step outside before the volunteers in hazmat suits have time to knock.
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Philadelphia will reinstate indoor mask mandates Monday, April 18, as its Covid-19 cases quickly rise, the city’s Public Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole announced Monday. The city is the first major US metropolitan area to bring back masking requirements after a slew of cities and states dropped restrictions as cases began
Continue ReadingBy Toyin Owoseje, CNN Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has revealed that she was left “very tired and exhausted” following her recent bout of Covid-19. The 95-year-old monarch, who tested positive for coronavirus in February, discussed her experience in a video call with staff at an east London hospital on Wednesday. Speaking with former Covid patient
Continue ReadingBy Dejania Oliver, CNN As Covid-19 numbers reach pandemic lows across the United States, many Covid-19 testing sites have begun closing their doors. Some testing sites have been open for almost two years, many seeing hundreds or even thousands of people a day. Now, home tests are more readily available, and demand for testing sites
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone and Samantha Beech, CNN New York City Mayor Eric Adams tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, according to a statement from a spokesperson. “This morning, Mayor Adams woke up with a raspy voice and, out of an abundance of caution, took a PCR test that has now come back positive,” press secretary
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Sealy, CNN Two-plus years into the Covid-19 pandemic, you probably know the basics of protection: vaccines, boosters, proper handwashing and masks. But one of the most powerful tools against the coronavirus is one that experts believe is just starting to get the attention it deserves: ventilation. Respiratory backwash “The challenge for organizations that
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two Oregon congressmen have tested positive for COVID-19.
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN More people can now get second Covid-19 booster shots after federal health officials announced they are allowing a broader group to get fourth doses of the two messenger RNA Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. Adults 50 and older, who received three previous mRNA doses, can get a second booster
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday revived President Joe Biden‘s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal executive branch employees, lifting a district court’s January injunction that had halted the requirement and ordering the lower court to dismiss the case. The majority on a three-member panel said that under the
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Fox, CNN Congress punted once again on a massive Covid-19 relief package, leaving President Joe Biden’s administration in limbo on one of its top requests from Congress this spring. Lawmakers departed Washington on Thursday for a two-week recess without passing the massive $10 billion deal, the second time Congress has failed to act
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The Oregon Health Authority’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released Thursday, reported 2,035 cases of the virus during the week of March 27 to April 2.
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Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum sued the Center for Covid Control and its COVID-19 testing partner, Doctors Clinical Laboratory, on Thursday for deceptively marketing testing services and for violating Oregon’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
Continue ReadingBy Naomi Thomas, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on Wednesday that he thinks there will be an uptick in cases of Covid-19 over the next few weeks and that it is likely that there could be a surge in the fall. “I think we should
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer and Clare Foran, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for Covid-19, a spokesman for the California Democrat said Thursday. “After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic,” Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff Drew Hammill tweeted. “The Speaker is fully vaccinated
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