Coronavirus News
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| ‘Get used to it’: Outbreaks give taste of living with virus | The U.S. is getting a first glimpse of what it’s like to experience COVID-19 outbreaks during this new phase of living with the virus, and the roster of the newly infected is studded with stars. Cabinet members, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Broadway actors and the governors of New Jersey… |
2022-04-08 | |
| Colds and the flu roaring back after vanishing during COVID | They’ve arrived just when life seemed good again. Cold and flu germs, which nearly vanished for two years, are roaring back, according to doctors and federal disease-trackers. As we do less masking and more hugging and handshaking, “there is greater transmission of viruses,” said… |
2022-04-07 | |
| Invisible party crasher has the other Washington on edge | “What are you hearing about the Gridiron?” A version of that text message blazed across Washington phones this week as the Gridiron Club dinner, an annual black-tie roast between journalists and presidential administrations held over the weekend, has quickly devolved from a swampy cross-… |
2022-04-07 | |
| Experts say US suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic | In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders, a move many health experts slammed as dangerously short-sighted. They warn the suspension of COVID-19 aid for poorer countries could… |
2022-04-07 | |
| Is Whatcom’s COVID vaccine supply keeping up since the second booster was approved? | The Whatcom County Health Department has not received word about any COVID-19 vaccine shortages in the county since a second booster dose was authorized for those 50 and older last week. “No, we have not been made aware of any shortages of COVID vaccine due to the ability for individuals… |
2022-04-06 | |
| WHO: COVID cases and deaths continue to fall globally | The number of coronavirus cases reported globally has dropped for a second consecutive week and confirmed COVID-19 deaths also fell last week, according to a World Health Organization report issued Wednesday. In its latest pandemic report, WHO said 9 million cases were reported, a 16%… |
2022-04-06 | |
| A new glimpse into WA’s earliest COVID deaths — and why we may never have a complete record | On the Saturday afternoon of Feb. 29, 2020, reporters joined local and state health officials, packing into a room for a news conference in downtown Seattle. Details were shared about what appeared to be the first COVID-19 death in the nation just the day before. It was a man in his 50s… |
2022-04-06 | |
| Biden orders push on long COVID, pandemic’s shadowy mystery | Confronting the pandemic’s lasting shadow, President Joe Biden has ordered a new national research push on long COVID, while also directing federal agencies to support patients dealing with the mysterious and debilitating condition. Biden assigned the Department of Health and Human… |
2022-04-06 | |
| US experts discuss COVID boosters for the fall and beyond | While many Americans are trying to move on with their lives after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials are debating the best way to use vaccines to stay ahead of the coronavirus. A panel of U.S. vaccine experts was meeting Wednesday to discuss key questions for… |
2022-04-06 | |
| Here’s what’s happening with COVID-19 cases in Whatcom schools; county’s numbers | For the first time since the height of the omicron surge in mid-January, Whatcom County schools saw a weekly increase in COVID-19 cases during the final full week of March, though it was just a slight uptick. The Bellingham, Ferndale, Lynden, Meridian, Mount Baker and Nooksack Valley… |
2022-04-05 |