NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- For more than a year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has collected data on hospitalizations for COVID-19 across the country and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status, but it has not made most of the information ...
Redfield, a virologist who headed the CDC under President Trump, stressed several times that this is just his opinion, not a proven fact. "I'm allowed to have opinions now," he said. "Most of us in a lab, when trying to grow a virus, we try to help make it grow better, and be...
Recent data show that it has affected nearly 600 million people causing more than 6 million deaths worldwide. Major studies have focused on resolving the acute symptomatology produced by COVID-19, but just past the emergency period, health care is turning its attention to how to calm the long...
long-term effects of COVID, or chronic COVID, the condition has hit one in five adults in the U.S., according to the CDC, and tens of millions worldwide with sometimes debilitating symptoms including shortness of breath, fatigue, and brain fog. ...
New COVID-19 guidance released by the CDC on Friday indicates that most Americans now live in areas where they can go maskless.Ken Downey Jr.Infectious Disease News
1. Americans continue to be infected with COVID-19. However, experiences with infection (and reinfection) are now less likely to inform one’s behavior. A recent example of this: those who have taken a vacation in the last three months are unlikely to report taking extra precautions, like ...
1. Compared to three months ago, fewer believe the Covid pandemic is over. The public is split both on the status of the pandemic and their level of concern over the recent uptick in cases. As the new Eris Covid variant spreads, half of Americans agree the pandemic is over – down fr...
As of midnight last night, Guangdong reported 29 new COVID-19 cases on August 11. These include 15 local symptomatic cases and 14 asymptomatic cases. The majority of cases were identified in Zhanjiang city, which accounted for all...
" the Colorado researchers wrote. "Because workplaces are common locations of potential exposure to persons with COVID-19, it is important that company officials and managers refer to CDC's guidance for workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic to minimize risk for exposure for their employees ...
The best way to keep yourself and your community safe from coronavirus variants, including delta, is to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Just over 67 percent of adults in the U.S. have received one vaccine dose, according to the most recent CDC data, and 58 percent are fully vaccinated. But ...