Featured Headlines The Delta Variant Will Drive A Steep Rise In U.S. COVID Deaths, A New Model Shows – NPR The current COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — fueled by the highly contagious delta variant — will steadily accelerate through the summer…
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Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 20, 2021
Featured Headlines Delta variant takes hold in U.S. as coronavirus cases rise nearly 70 percent – Washington Post Federal health officials sounded an alarm Friday about a surge in U.S. coronavirus infections fueled by the twin threats posed by the highly transmissible…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 16, 2021
Featured Headlines Los Angeles County will require masks to be worn indoors as Delta variant spreads – NYT Los Angeles County announced Thursday that it will require masks to be worn inside regardless of vaccination status, as the highly contagious Delta…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 13, 2021
Featured Headlines Beta Variant May Be Deadlier, South African Hospital Data Suggests – MedPageToday Case incidence, hospital admissions, and in-hospital mortality all increased during the second wave of COVID-19 in South Africa, when the Beta variant (B.1.351) was predominant, researchers…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 9, 2021
Featured Headlines Pfizer Vaccine Less Effective Against Delta Infections but Prevents Severe Illness, Israeli Data Show – Wall Street Journal Data from Israel suggest Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine is less effective at protecting against infections caused by the Delta variant of Covid-19 but…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 6, 2021
Featured Headlines What Doctors Should Know About Delta – MedPageToday The Delta variant, or B.1.617.2, first emerged in India, with the earliest samples dating to October 2020. However, it didn’t raise alarms until India faced down a major COVID-19 surge this spring,…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 1, 2021
Featured Headlines The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta – The Atlantic Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled.Fifteen months after the novel coronavirus shut down much of the world, the…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – June 29, 2021
Featured Headlines Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission – Science The effectiveness of masks in preventing the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has been debated since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. One important…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – June 25, 2021
Featured Headlines COVID-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome not exclusive to children – MedNewsToday New information continues to materialize on the aftereffects of COVID-19. Reported complications from the COVID-19 disease include blood clots, cardiovascular disease, kidney or liver injury, and post-COVID-19 syndrome.…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – June 22, 2021
Featured Headlines Dr. Fauci Says The Risks From The Delta Variant Underscore The Importance Of Vaccines – NPR The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that the variant of coronavirus first detected in India is a variant of…