Coronavirus News
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| Officials say more areas of US may see mask recommendations | COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of … |
2022-05-18 | |
| Is it COVID or flu? New at-home test can tell you | An at-home COVID-19 test that can also detect other common respiratory viruses like the flu was authorized for emergency use Monday by the US Food and Drug Administration. The test is made by Labcorp, a laboratory testing company based in North Carolina, and is the first nonprescription… |
2022-05-17 | |
| Biden offering additional 8 free COVID-19 tests to public | The government website for people to request free COVID-19 at-home tests from the U.S. government is now accepting a third round of orders. The White House announced Tuesday that U.S. households can request an additional eight free at-home tests to be shipped by the U.S. Postal Service… |
2022-05-17 | |
| How big is the latest U.S. coronavirus wave? No one really knows | Eileen Wassermann struggles to calculate her daily risks at this stage of the coronavirus pandemic — with infections drastically undercounted and mask mandates gone. The immunocompromised 69-year-old ensconces herself in her SUV for the half-hour ferry ride across the Puget Sound from… |
2022-05-17 | |
| FDA clears COVID booster shot for healthy kids ages 5 to 11 | U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds, hoping an extra vaccine dose will enhance their protection as infections once again creep upward. Everyone 12 and older already was supposed to get one booster dose for the best protection… |
2022-05-17 | |
| How often can you be infected with the coronavirus? | A virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body’s defenses and waves of infections two, maybe three times a year — this may be the future of COVID-19, some scientists now fear. The central problem is that the coronavirus has become more adept at… |
2022-05-16 | |
| Whatcom surpasses 300 COVID-related deaths, as U.S. sees 1 millionth death of pandemic | In the same week the United States reached 1 million deaths during the pandemic, Whatcom County surpassed 300 COVID-related deaths. Whatcom County has had 301 COVID-releated deaths over the past two-plus years, according to the latest update of the Washington State Department of Health… |
2022-05-16 | |
| US ‘vulnerable’ to COVID without new shots | White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha has issued a dire warning that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn’t… |
2022-05-13 | |
| Had COVID at Christmas? You could get it again now | As a stealth wave of COVID-19 makes its way across the U.S., those who have so far evaded the virus are now falling ill — while others are catching COVID-19 for a second, third or even fourth time. Several factors have conspired to make the state of the pandemic harder than ever to track… |
2022-05-13 | |
| Whatcom returns to CDC’s ‘low’ COVID community level, but 2 regions would still be ‘high’ | After one week at “medium,” Whatcom County returned to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “low” COVID-19 community level last week. For the first time since the CDC began ranking the COVID threat level in each county, Whatcom received a “medium” ranking on May 5. But… |
2022-05-13 |