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New York health officials reported 21,027 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest single-day total since the pandemic’s nascent days. The data showed a drastic change in the virus’ New York presence; in weeks prior, infections had been rising, but the sudden spike suggests that the Omicron variant is responsible. Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiology professor at Columbia University, said that the Omicron variant is currently infecting more people in New York than in other parts of the country. “In that sense, this sort of reminds me of March 2020,” she said. “We are taking the first wave of...
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A new strain of COVID-19 has emerged in the United Kingdom, and while the United States is not sure if it has made its way across the Atlantic Ocean, multiple officials are monitoring the new strain and advising Americans to be wary. “We don’t know yet. We are, of course, looking very carefully into this,” said U.S. COVID-19 vaccine head Dr. Moncef Slaoui told CNN. He added that the new strain is “very unlikely” to be resistant to current vaccines. The new U.K. strain appears to be 70% more transmissible than the first, with the country enforcing new lockdown mandates and restricting travel. B...
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By, the end of this week, both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines will have been authorized and starting to be shipped out. What’s the difference between the two vaccines? However, there are a few differences between the two drugs, an important one being the required storing temperatures. Moderna’s vaccine can be stored in normal freezers and does not require a super-cold transportation network, making it accessible for smaller facilities and local communities. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed clinical trials of Moderna’s vaccine to start on March 3 with its adva...
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On Sunday, President Donald Trump and Gov. Larry Hogan (R-Maryland) got into an angry exchange over Twitter.Reports show that Hogan spent millions of dollars on COVID-19 tests from South Korea that have proven to be inaccurate, and Maryland has had a recent surge in COVID cases. Trump shared this on his Twitter, writing that “Hogan is just as bad as the flawed tests he paid big money for!”Hogan spent $9.5 million for 500,000 COVID tests, and another $2.5 million on replacement tests when he found that the original were faulty.Hogan has said that the report is false, and responded to Trump’s tw...
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President Donald Trump lies at the center of most misinformation surrounding COVID-19, according to a study from Cornell University which looked at 38 million articles about the coronavirus pandemic in English-language media internationally.The study, released Thursday, found that Trump was mentioned in 38% of the entire “misinformation conversation,” making him the single-most influential driver of false information surrounding the pandemic.“The biggest surprise was that the president of the United States was the single largest driver of misinformation around Covid,” said he study’s lead auth...
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Although many COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic, President Donald Trump‘s late-night diagnosis makes him fall into the category of people at higher risk of developing symptoms and dying from the virus.Trump announced on Twitter last night that both he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19 and were beginning their quarantine. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters Friday that the president is experiencing “mild.” Melania said on Twitter that she also has “mild symptoms” but is “overall feeling good.”However, as an obese 74-year-old male, Trump has three strikes...
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