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Docs Mobilize Help For Indian Colleagues Affected by COVID Surge
Clinicians from across the world are banding together to mobilize help for their colleagues in India, where more than 300,000 new cases of COVID-19 have...
Could It Happen Here? India’s Dire COVID Situation Likely to Worsen
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Reports out of India describe a dire COVID-19 situation unfolding, with...
Will Michigan’s Conservative Outposts Keep Pandemic Rolling?
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. When Kathryn Watkins goes shopping these days, she doesn’t bring her...
Worldwide COVID-19 Cases Reached New Weekly Record
More COVID-19 cases were reported worldwide last week than in any other seven-day period during the pandemic, according to new data published Tuesday by the...
Brazil’s P1 COVID Variant Mutating, May Become More Dangerous
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s P1 coronavirus variant, behind a deadly COVID-19 surge in the Latin American country that has raised international alarm, is...
Next Winter May Be Rough: Models Predict ‘Considerable Surge’
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. It’s likely the United States will see another surge of COVID-19 this...
COVID-19 Surge in Canada Prompts Alarm, Stay-in-Place Orders
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. As millions more US residents are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations each day — including...
As States Expand Vaccines, Prisoners Still Lack Access
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. This week, Florida expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines to all residents...
Beating the Pavement to Vaccinate the Underrepresented
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Leonor Garcia held her clipboard close to her chest and rapped...
Neutral Zone Border-Crossing Parties Risking Infection
BLAINE, Wash. — In the shadows of covid travel restrictions, a 42-acre park on the far western edge of the U.S.-Canadian dividing line has become...
Children Likely the ‘Leading Edge’ in Spread of COVID-19 Variants
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Public health officials in the Midwest and Northeast are sounding the...
Lifetime Achievement: Anthony Fauci, MD
When Anthony Fauci, MD, was called to help lead the country’s COVID-19 response in January 2020 as part of the White House’s coronavirus...
California Leaders Look to Reopening, Push 1-Shot Vaccine
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. LOS ANGELES (AP) — California officials are contemplating what things will...
To Extract More Doses per Vial, Vaccinators Put Squeeze on FDA
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. President Joe Biden has promised enough covid vaccine to immunize every...
A Single-County Measles Outbreak Cost Millions, Study Finds
A measles outbreak that infected 72 people in Washington State cost approximately $3.4 million, including costs of the public health response, medical treatment expenses, and...
States Easing Virus Restrictions Despite Experts’ Warnings
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. MISSION, Kan. (AP) — With the U.S. vaccination drive picking up...
US Nursing Home Deaths Decline Sharply
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. When the U.S. coronavirus vaccination program began in December, residents and...
NYC Officials Downplay Concern Over New Coronavirus Variant
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mayor Bill de Blasio’s chief medical adviser on Thursday downplayed the results of two studies that may suggest a new coronavirus...
Gym Sessions Without Masks Can Spread COVID-19, CDC Studies Say
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Gyms can be hot spots for COVID-19 outbreaks if people don’t...
Growing Immunity Driving Drop in COVID Cases? Not So Fast, Experts Say
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. After more than 3 months of record-breaking surges of COVID-19 cases...
CDC Warns of Drug-Resistant Typhoid Fever Outbreak
A new drug-resistant strain of Salmonella Typhi has infected least 71 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
FEMA Opens Mass Vaccine Sites as Bad Weather Hampers Efforts
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Motorists wait to get their COVID-19 vaccine at a federally run...
San Francisco, LA Prioritize 2nd Shots, Close Some Sites
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is the latest California city...
White House Considers Domestic COVID-19 Travel Restrictions
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The Biden administration is weighing whether to implement travel restrictions within...
Coronavirus ‘Most Likely’ Started in Animals: WHO
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 likely originated in animals and spread...
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