Coronavirus News
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| CDC advisers back expansion of COVID boosters for all adults | A panel of experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention backed the expansion of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine boosters to all adults. The experts met Friday afternoon just hours after the Food and Drug Administration … |
2021-11-19 | |
| Washington state to mirror contentious federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate, Inslee says | Washington state will retain rules in President Joe Biden’s embattled COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers, Gov. Jay Inslee said during a Thursday press conference. The mandate calls for businesses with more than 100 workers to require employees to be vaccinated by Jan. 4 or test weekly… |
2021-11-19 | |
| What is long COVID? And what is my risk of getting it? | Over the past year, there's been a flurry of research published about long COVID. Dozens of these studies try to estimate the risk of having lingering symptoms months after a COVID infection. But when you look closely at the data, a huge inconsistency emerges: The estimates of the… |
2021-11-18 | |
| Canada to drop testing requirement for those making short trips into Whatcom County | One Canadian border restriction that will continue to dampen cross-border shopping is the rule for unvaccinated children, said Laurie Trautman, director at Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute. The restrictions currently in place have unvaccinated children required to… |
2021-11-18 | |
| COVID outbreak in party town shows how the pandemic could end | It was meant to be a summer vacation to celebrate. Thousands of revelers flocked to Provincetown, Massachusetts, for the July Fourth holiday, fully immunized against COVID-19 and ready to enjoy new freedoms, including socializing without face masks. Instead, the weather turned cool… |
2021-11-17 | |
| New COVID vaccine-or-test rules start in Washington; here’s a quick guide | Concerts, sporting matches and other large events will now require proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test for indoor events with 1,000 people or more, or for outdoor events with more than 10,000 people. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s mandate goes into effect Monday.… |
2021-11-16 | |
| Pfizer asks US officials to OK promising COVID-19 pill | Pfizer said Tuesday it is asking U.S. regulators to authorize its experimental pill for COVID-19, setting the stage for a likely launch of the promising therapy in the coming weeks. The company’s filing comes as new infections are rising once again, driven mainly by hot spots in states… |
2021-11-16 | |
| Three more COVID-related deaths reported in Whatcom County, and hospitalizations increase | Three more Whatcom County residents’ deaths have been linked to COVID-19, the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard reported on Monday, Nov. 15, and the county’s number of COVID-related hospitalizations also increased. Whatcom has now had 171 deaths related to COVID-19… |
2021-11-16 | |
| Some positive signs in COVID battle, but WA hospital officials note the holidays loom | COVID-19 hospitalizations have trended downward in Washington statewide recently, and the number of hospital workers who chose to quit in light of the vaccine mandate did not go as high as feared. That’s according to the Washington State Hospital Association, which on Monday offered an updated… |
2021-11-15 | |
| Not out of the woods: COVID cases rising in Western Europe | Santa won’t be getting his traditional welcome in the Dutch city of Utrecht this year. The ceremonial head of Carnival celebrations in Germany’s Cologne had to bow out because he tested positive for COVID-19. And Austria is planning a lockdown on unvaccinated people in two hard-hit regions. |
2021-11-12 |