Minnesota, Virginia Join U.S. States Easing COVID-19 Restrictions More Reuters FILE PHOTO: As Phase One of reopening begins in Northern Virginia today, a restaurant worker in a face mask to protect against the coronavirus (COVID-19) puts up a "Mandarory Mask" sign at a restaura...
"If you look at the slope, the incline of cases that we have experienced as we have gone into the late fall and soon-to-be-early winter, it is really quite troubling," he said on CNN on Sunday. Reported COVID-19 cases rose by 7% in Virginia last week, the...
After weeks of back-and-forth, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, signed into law on Wednesday a bill that will effectively bar mask mandates in schools, by giving parents the right to exempt their children from mask-wearing without stating a reason. "Today, we are re-establishing...
On Saturday, the Virginia Health Department confirmed 152 positive cases of COVID-19. Todd McGovern, Director of Marketing and Communications, Reston Hospital Center: “Reston Hospital Center has well-established protocols in place to care for patients with infectious diseases, and our emergency ...
Passengers wearing face masks walk into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, Dec 4, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] NEW YORK -- The total number of reported COVID-19 cases in the United States is to hit 50 million, while the Omicron variant had been fo...
The weekly case number reported Monday is about a 240% increase in child cases since the week of July 22 to 29 when the group counted 71,726 cases. As of Sept. 9, nearly 5.3 million kids have tested positive for Covid-19. Still, children are far less likely than adults to suffer se...
1). On 21 September 2020, the highest level of daily deaths was in Florida at 101 deaths per day. A critical policy need at this stage of the modeling was the forecasting of hospital resource demands in the US states with the worst effective transmission rates (Virginia, New York and ...
For the Coronavirus Tweets, we examined both fear-sentiment and negative sentiment and found some counter-intuitive insights, showing relatively lower levels of fear in states which were significantly affected by a high number of COVID-19 cases, as demonstrated in Figure 3. Table 5. Location ...
From CNN's Virginia Langmaid The US Food and Drug Administration is pulling in extra help from across the agency to speed final approval of Pfizer/BioNtech’s coronavirus vaccine, an agency spokesperson told CNN Friday. “We have taken an all-hands-on-deck approach, including identifying add...
A third (33%) of Americans say they know someone who got reinfected with COVID-19 in the last few weeks. The same number, one in three, are familiar with the new coronavirus variant, Omicron BA.5, that has been attributed to the latest rise in cases. Despite recent reinfections, ...