As tens of millions of travelers hit the road to enjoy the Labor Day weekend, public health officials warned the unvaccinated anew against moving around freely during the holiday marking the unofficial end of summer. Authorities cautioned the vaccinated, too, against letting their guard down as the Delta variant fuels a fourth, deadly surge in….
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As Delta variant slams hospitals, forecast warns of 100,000 more virus deaths
The coronavirus keeps ripping through the country with a fourth, Delta-variant fueled surge that also is producing confounding, confused behaviors that only add to the pandemic’s considerable gloom. The pandemic, which already has killed at least 635,000 Americans and infected just under 40 million of us, is slamming hospitals. More than 100,000 coronavirus patients, including….
Continue ReadingDelta surge gets grimmer as both public health steps and resistance stiffen
The coronavirus has killed almost 630,000 Americans, with the pandemic adding in its fourth surge now under way 1,000 deaths a day or 42 fatalities per hour. The disease has infected almost 38 million of us, with more than 145,000 new cases occurring each day in recent weeks. More than 90,000 coronavirus patients were in hospitals nationwide….
Continue ReadingTo battle pandemic, vaccine boosters, more mandates and fights with the resistant
As the latest coronavirus surge worsens, public health efforts to quell the pandemic are targeting two groups that might be dubbed the can’t-s and won’t-s. Federal regulators sought to assist the first group by approving coronavirus vaccination booster shots for a select group of patients — those whose compromised immune systems could not generate sufficient….
Continue ReadingFinally: Tide turns for vaccine mandates for nursing-home health staff
From the It’s-about-time department: Nursing homes and long-term care facilities finally have started to require their health workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported as of Aug. 6 that ~1.6 million long-term care residents and 1.3 million health workers in the care facilities were fully vaccinated…..
Continue ReadingDelta variant-surge embroils kids and parents in politicized pandemic disputes
Kids are flocking back to school for in-person, fall classes — and they are getting eye-opening views of how grownups continue to react to the gravest public health crisis in a century. What kinds of lessons are the next generations taking away from us? Public health officials are moving with urgency not only to get….
Continue ReadingSummer optimism wilts as contagious Delta variant rages in unvaccinated
The sunny optimism that the coronavirus pandemic might finally be quelled is fading as fast as a two-scoop ice cream cone in the summer swelter. The stark rise of the Delta variant, with its fast-surging infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, has reminded experts and the public of the pandemic’s gravity, as well as its ability to….
Continue ReadingVexation rises as unvaccinated dig in and pandemic surges with Delta variant
As coronavirus cases surge, hospitalizations rise, and deaths tick up — mostly among the unvaccinated — the national conversation has returned to familiar controversies over public health measures like getting people shots and getting them to cover their faces again. But with the Delta variant tearing mostly through those who haven’t gotten shots, a new….
Continue ReadingCDC official sees a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ as coronavirus cases surge
Coronavirus infections have increased in just a week by 70%, with hospitalizations increasing 36% and deaths rising by 26%. Public health officials blame the Delta variant for fueling the latest surge in the coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times reported, noting: “Delta now accounts for more than half of new infections across the country,….
Continue ReadingWith 4 million deaths, pandemic’s persistent peril is clear globally. But in U.S.?
The rest of the planet may be seeing what roughly half of Americans cannot: The coronavirus pandemic is far from over and it is savaging humanity in a way that is now sadly preventable. The disease’s global toll now has exceeded 4 million deaths, a number that is likely far under reported, according to the….
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