Coronavirus News
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| COVID shots still work but researchers hunt new improvements | COVID-19 vaccinations are at a critical juncture as companies test whether new approaches like combination shots or nasal drops can keep up with a mutating coronavirus — even though it’s not clear if changes are needed. Already there’s public confusion about who should get a second… |
2022-04-25 | |
| Canada eases COVID travel rules for kids | Unvaccinated children aged five to 11 traveling with a fully vaccinated adult will no longer need a COVID-19 test to enter Canada beginning Monday, the federal government said. Pre-entry tests will still be needed for partially vaccinated or unvaccinated travelers over the age of 12 who… |
2022-04-25 | |
| Are COVID community levels remaining low in all seven Whatcom County regions? | Though all seven Whatcom County school district regions have COVID-19 infection and hospitalization rates that would keep them well within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “low” community level, three regions had particularly low infection rates. The regions covered… |
2022-04-25 | |
| How to reduce risk in a mask-optional world: CDC’s top COVID-19 doctor has tips for travelers | Your bags are packed, you’re ready to go. You’re standing there, outside your door. And you’re thinking, “If I catch COVID-19 on this trip, I could get seriously ill or die.” You got a fresh N95 respirator for the trip. And you were counting on most of your fellow travelers to cover… |
2022-04-22 | |
| How we know that masks, even the cloth ones, reduce the spread of COVID-19 | Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the public debate on masks is as heated as ever — especially in Philadelphia, which earned national attention for once again requiring masks in indoor… |
2022-04-22 | |
| Mask mandates return to US college campuses as cases rise | The final weeks of the college school year have been disrupted yet again by COVID-19 as universities bring back mask mandates, switch to online classes and scale back large gatherings in response to upticks in coronavirus infections. Colleges in Washington, D.C., New York, Pennsylvania,… |
2022-04-22 | |
| Lagging behind national trend, Seattle workers not in hurry to return to the office | This spring many Seattle-area firms began reopening their offices and tempting workers back with promises of pizza, spontaneous workplace joviality and other all-but-forgotten pleasures of in-person employment. To which many office workers appear to have said, “meh” — much to the dismay… |
2022-04-22 | |
| WHO says global COVID cases, deaths declined again last week | The World Health Organization says that the number of reported new COVID-19 cases worldwide decreased by nearly a quarter last week, continuing a decline since the end of March. The Geneva-based U.N. health agency said in a weekly report that nearly 5.59 million cases were reported… |
2022-04-21 | |
| Justice Dept. to appeal order voiding travel mask mandate | The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes and trains and in travel hubs, officials said. The notice came minutes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked the Justice Department to appeal… |
2022-04-21 | |
| WA looks forward with less emphasis on COVID case counting | Counting coronavirus cases just isn’t what it used to be. It’s long been known that many coronavirus infections go unreported. Then the omicron variant blasted off the charts earlier this year — just as rapid, at-home tests became more commonly used (with their positives often going… |
2022-04-21 |