Coronavirus News
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| ‘Welcome back Canadian friends’ — U.S. reopens border after 597 days of COVID closure | Traffic is once again flowing in both directions at the U.S.-Canada border Monday, Nov. 8, after the U.S. began allowing vaccinated Canadians to enter. The move comes 597 days after the two countries each restricted travel to “essential” crossings only in an effort to slow the spread of the… |
2021-11-08 | |
| Whatcom’s vaccinated residents see 3 deaths, higher COVID infection rate in late October | Though weekly COVID-19 case rates in Whatcom County remain more than three times higher among Whatcom County’s unvaccinated and partially vaccinated residents, vaccinated residents saw increases in cases, hospitalizations and deaths during the final week of October. During the week of Oct. 24-30… |
2021-11-08 | |
| Feds urge schools to provide COVID-19 shots, info for kids | The Biden administration is encouraging local school districts to host clinics to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to kids — and information to parents on the benefits of the shots —… |
2021-11-08 | |
| Study shows dramatic decline in COVID-19 vaccines’ effectiveness at preventing infections over time | Researchers who scoured the records of nearly 800,000 U.S. veterans found that in early March, just as the delta variant was gaining a toehold across American communities, the three vaccines were roughly equal in their ability to prevent infections. But over the next six months, that… |
2021-11-05 | |
| With two more COVID-related deaths reported Thursday, Whatcom has seen 14 in past 2 weeks | Whatcom County continues to feel the impact of the more than three-month-long delta surge, as the county now has had 14 COVID-related deaths reported in the past two weeks. Whatcom had two more deaths linked to COVID-19 reported by the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data… |
2021-11-05 | |
| COVID infection rates slowing among kids in Washington state, but new reports show they’re still at record highs | COVID-19 infection rates are dropping among children and teens in Washington, though a new report shows rates remain higher now than at any point before the country’s summer surge of delta cases. Case rates among youth under 19 averaged about 425.8 infections per 100,000 people between… |
2021-11-05 | |
| Pfizer says COVID-19 pill cut hospital, death risk by 90% | Pfizer Inc. said Friday that its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% in high-risk adults, as the drugmaker joined the race for an easy-to-use medication to treat the coronavirus. Currently most COVID-19 treatments require an IV or… |
2021-11-05 | |
| City of Seattle employees, departments feeling strain from vaccine mandate-related staffing | Seattle’s vaccine mandate has left hundreds of exempted unvaccinated city employees on leave for over two weeks, exacerbating staffing shortages in major departments and drawing criticism from impacted employees. Mayor Jenny Durkan required all city employees working on-site to be… |
2021-11-04 | |
| Americans, Canadians anxiously awaiting full reopening of border | In between two border checkpoints, for two nations, sits one monument: the Peace Arch. “The park is a solace,” said Christina Winkler, who is president of the International Peace Arch Association. “It's a refuge.” Inscribed at the… |
2021-11-04 | |
| UK authorizes Merck antiviral pill, 1st shown to treat COVID | Britain granted conditional authorization on Thursday to the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19 so far. It also is the first country to OK the treatment from drugmaker Merck, although it wasn’t immediately clear how quickly the pill would be available. The pill was licensed… |
2021-11-04 |