By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Less than half of the US population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19 — and with cases on the rise, experts are urging a return to precautions reminiscent of the earlier days of the pandemic. “What I would say bluntly is: If you are not vaccinated right now in the United States,
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The Dutch rowing team has agreed to isolate itself at the Tokyo Games in the wake of multiple positive tests for COVID-19.
Continue ReadingBy Chandelis Duster, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the US is “going in the wrong direction” as the number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise, particularly among unvaccinated Americans. “If you look at the inflection of the curve of new cases and, as you said in the run-in to this interview, that it
Continue ReadingThe US is now averaging more than 43,000 cases of Covid-19 a day as the Delta variant fuels a 65% jump in cases. CNN’s Polo Sandoval reports.
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, Holly Yan and Dakin Andone, CNN For anyone who loves freedom and hates mask mandates or remote learning, Dr. Jerome Adams has a blunt message: Get vaccinated. “More mitigation is coming. Whether it’s masking, or whether it’s closures or whether it’s your kids having to return to virtual learning, that is coming,”
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration is debating a series of steps to further contain the Covid-19 pandemic, which, after 18 months, is again surging in parts of the country where vaccination rates are low. A senior administration health official said the government is “actively exploring” how to provide extra vaccine shots to vulnerable
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, Paul Vercammen and Christina Maxouris, CNN In Los Angeles County, which was crushed during the winter surge of the coronavirus, Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are now again exploding. On Saturday, the county reported 2,600 new cases. A day earlier, county health officials recorded more than 3,000 new Covid-19 infections, for the first
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St. Charles President and CEO Joe Sluka updated the community Friday on the risks posed by the rising numbers of the “much more transmissible’ delta variant of COVID-19 and again urged Central Oregonians be cautious in public — and to get vaccinated, if they haven’t.
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There are two new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,836, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday.
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Florida’s attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Friday to step in on an emergency basis to block Covid-19 protocols put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requiring the cruise lines to meet certain conditions before they can sail again. The dispute comes
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As daily COVID-19 cases doubled in the past week, Oregon health officials reported Thursday that the highly transmissible delta variant has now become the dominant coronavirus variant in the state.
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe, CNN While Covid-19 cases in the United States have been rising in almost every state over the past week, a handful have been driving the bulk of the nationwide surge. White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters Thursday the country has “fundamentally changed the course of this pandemic” and the
Continue ReadingThere is one new COVID-19 related death in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,834, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
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Incident management teams are working closely with local public health officials and the Oregon Health Authority’s investigation into nine positive cases of COVID-19 among crews battling the nearly 400,000-acre Bootleg Fire, officials said Thursday.
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The Oregon Department of Education released Thursday an updated COVID-19 “resiliency framework” for schools this fall, including that the state still “strongly advises” face coverings for unvaccinated students and staff while indoors.
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden said Wednesday that children under the age of 12 could be eligible to receive a Covid-19 vaccine “soon,” predicting that the government could green light the rollout for young Americans in the next few months. “Soon, I believe,” Biden said when asked by CNN’s Don Lemon when most
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There is one new COVID-19 related death in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,833, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.
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There are six newly reported COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including two Deschutes County residents, raising the state’s death toll to 2,832, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Madeline Holcombe and Theresa Waldrop, CNN The more contagious Delta variant of coronavirus now makes up 83% of sequenced samples in the United States, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday. “This is a dramatic increase, up from 50% for the week of July 3,” Walensky said
Continue Reading There are nine new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon over the past three days, two of them Deschutes County residents, raising the state’s death toll to 2,826, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday.
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