By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The United States seems to have hit a Covid-19 plateau, with more than 40,000 people hospitalized and more than 400 deaths a day consistently over the past month or so. It’s a dramatic improvement from this winter — there were four times as many hospitalizations and nearly six times as many
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy and CNN’s Beijing bureau Around 80,000 tourists are stranded in the popular resort city of Sanya on China’s tropical Hainan island after authorities announced lockdown measures to stem an outbreak of Covid-19. Public transportation was suspended and people’s movements inside the city were restricted from early Saturday morning, authorities said. Stranded tourists
Continue ReadingBy Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden was officially cleared to emerge from isolation Sunday after a second negative Covid-19 test, his physician announced. “This morning, the president’s SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing was negative for a second consecutive day,” presidential physician Kevin O’Connor wrote in a letter Sunday. “He will safely return to public engagement and
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Oregon Health Authority’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released Thursday, reported 40,013 cases of infection during the month of July. Of those cases, 18,622, or 46.5%, were unvaccinated people, and 21,380, or 53.4%, were vaccine breakthrough cases. Among the breakthrough cases, 14,388, or 67.3%, were fully vaccinated and boosted. To
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council has voted to end COVID-19 hazard pay for grocery store workers. The Seattle Times reports the council voted 5-2 on Tuesday, with Councilmembers Lisa Herbold and Teresa Mosqueda absent, to repeal a policy passed in early 2021 which required grocery stores to pay employees an additional $4 per
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 again Saturday morning, per a letter from presidential physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor, in what is likely a “rebound” Covid-19 positivity that the doctor noted is “observed in a small percentage of patients treated with Paxlovid.” Biden has experienced “no reemergence of
Continue ReadingBy Naomi Thomas, CNN Moderna and Pfizer booster shots updated to target Omicron coronavirus subvariants could be available in early fall, pending signoff by federal health agencies, the US Department of Health and Human Services said Friday. The US Food and Drug Administration advised vaccine makers in June to update the boosters to add an
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The COVID-19 Biweekly Data Report, released Wednesday by the Oregon Health Authority, shows an increase in COVID-19-related hospitalizations and a slight decrease in deaths, along with a decline in overall cases. Here’s the report from OHA: OHA reported 18,598 new cases of COVID-19 from July 10-23, a 13.3% decline from the previous
Continue ReadingCNN By Jen Christensen, CNN In June, the World Health Organization recommended that scientists continue to research all possible origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, including a lab leak. Two newly published studies take totally different approaches but arrive at the same conclusion: The Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, was most likely the epicenter for
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden said Wednesday he’s “feeling great” and is back to working in person after isolating in the White House and recovering from what has been described as a mild case of Covid-19. The President, addressing the nation from the Rose Garden, credited the vaccines,
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Millions of school-age children in the United States are still unvaccinated against Covid-19 as many prepare for a return to school. A new CNN analysis finds that less than half of children and teens are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and only a tenth have been boosted. Many of the nation’s largest
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN The Chinese metropolis of Wuhan has shut down a district of almost a million people after detecting four asymptomatic Covid cases, as the original epicenter of the pandemic takes no chances in preventing another outbreak under China’s stringent zero-Covid policy. Authorities in Wuhan’s Jiangxia district, home to more than 970,000 people,
Continue ReadingCNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 symptoms have “almost completely resolved,” his physician said in an update Monday, as the President continues to isolate at the White House. “When questioned, at this point, he only notes some residual nasal congestion and minimal hoarseness,” Dr. Kevin O’Connor wrote. That is an improvement from
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden said Thursday that he’s tested positive for Covid-19 but will continue to work while in isolation at the White House despite his mild symptoms. In a video posted to Twitter, Biden told Americans that he is “doing well” and that his symptoms continue
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN It’s not your imagination: As the rapidly spreading BA.5 coronavirus subvariant causes a surge in infections across the United States, more people are catching Covid-19 for the second or third time. But on average, these reinfections do not seem to be happening more rapidly, according to a new analysis from the
Continue ReadingBy Deblina Chakraborty, CNN Covid-19 cases are increasing across the United States once again, driven by the most contagious strain of the coronavirus yet, BA.5. Federal health officials are urging Americans to stay up to date on their vaccines by getting additional boosters if they are due for them, but many people are confused. Who
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The fight against COVID-19 continues as new variants appear and hospitals still struggle with staffing shortages. The Oregon Health Authority held a public media briefing Wednesday morning on the current status of COVID-19, as well as the monkeypox virus.
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard and Katherine Dillinger, CNN Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday that she has endorsed the recommendation of the agency’s vaccine advisers to use the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine as a two-dose primary series in adults. It’s the fourth coronavirus vaccine available in the United
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN Injected vaccines against the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 have been hugely successful, saving nearly 20 million lives globally in their first year of use and slashing the pandemic’s death toll by an estimated 63%, according to a recent study. Yet good as these shots are, they have not stopped the virus
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Three days after Joe Sluka resigned as St. Charles Health System president and CEO, the organization announced it has laid off and eliminated two upper-level positions to cut costs and reactivated its incident command system to deal with the continued financial, patient capacity and staffing impacts of COVID-19.
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