Had Covid At Christmas? You Could Get It Again Now

Group of people wearing surgical masks gathering during coronavirus covid-19 outbreak.

(Bloomberg) — As a stealth wave of Covid makes its way across the U.S., those who have so far evaded the virus are now falling ill — while others are catching Covid for a second, third or even fourth time.Several factors have conspired to make the state of the pandemic harder than ever to track. […]

Biden marks 1 million U.S. COVID deaths: ‘An irreplaceable loss’

Joe Biden Press Conference

President Biden issued a statement on Thursday preemptively marking a milestone that once seemed unimaginable: 1 million COVID-19 deaths in the United States. “Today, we mark a tragic milestone: 1 million American lives lost to COVID-19. One million empty chairs around the dinner table,” Biden said. “Each an irreplaceable loss. Each leaving behind a family, […]

COVID-19: ‘We might not be in a great spot in the fall,’ says Moderna CEO

The majority of Moderna’s (MNRA) revenue comes from governments abroad — which are bracing are for an ongoing need for COVID-19 vaccines this year. While the U.S. waits on funding and for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to decide on which virus strain to attack through boosters, Moderna and other vaccine companies are […]

The lucky few to never get coronavirus could teach us more about it

Woman in Window

When her partner tested positive for the coronavirus two days before Christmas, Michelle Green worried she, too, would become ill. She was two months pregnant with their second child. He was a bartender at the time, and some of his co-workers were infected with the virus. “I told him to get in the guest bedroom […]

COVID Positivity Tops 20% in Hot NYC Neighborhood as 5th Wave Intensifies

Kathy Hochul

The COVID-19 transmission rate in New York City is up 20% in the last week and nearly 90% in the last month, to the same levels as late January. COVID positivity rates in parts of New York City are back over 20% as the 5th wave of the pandemic spreads throughout the state, driven by a highly […]

Here’s what the White House’s grim coronavirus warning means for you

Joe Biden

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Washington (CNN)”You don’t make the timeline, the virus makes the timeline.”That was Dr. Anthony Fauci’s message for an anxious nation when the novel coronavirus first began to spread across the US. More than two years later, […]

Xi Jinping moves to silence Covid Zero critics in sign of brewing tumult

Xi Jinping

BEIJING: China’s top leaders warned against questioning Xi Jinping’s Covid Zero strategy, striking a more defensive tone as pressure builds to relax virus curbs and protect the economic growth that has long been a source of Communist Party strength.The Politburo’s supreme seven-member Standing Committee pledged Thursday during a meeting led by Xi to “fight against […]

Long-COVID Lung Disease: Researchers Characterize 3 Phenotypes

Doctor checking lung x-ray

Post-COVID lung disease includes 3 different subtypes or subgroups that potentially require separate and different management, according to a study published in the European Respiratory Journal. Consequences of prolonged multi-organ symptoms and complications from COVID-19 infection are a growing health concern. Residual organ damage post-COVID-19 range from self-limited abnormalities to major lung diseases. Histological evaluation […]

Covid’s toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths

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The United States on Wednesday surpassed 1 million Covid-19 deaths, according to data compiled by NBC News — a once unthinkable scale of loss even for the country with the world’s highest recorded toll from the virus. The number — equivalent to the population of San Jose, California, the 10th largest city in the U.S. […]