Featured Headlines Poland’s population rapidly shrinking under pandemic – ABC News Statistics for 2020 show deaths spiked in Poland to a level unseen since World War II and births sharply declined, trends that are being attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Tulane Outbreak Daily – January 26, 2021
Featured Headlines Dr. Anthony Fauci on Biden’s coronavirus response and vaccinations – CBS News Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, joined “CBS This Morning” to discuss President Biden’s plan to tackle the coronavirus…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – January 22, 2021
Featured Headlines Fauci warns of virus variant risks, but voices confidence in vaccines – New York Times Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, addressing reporters from the White House for the first time in months, warned Thursday that the nation is “still…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – January 21, 2021
Featured Headlines Coronavirus Variant Emerging in California ‘One to Watch’ – NBC San Diego A new strain of the coronavirus, CAL.20C, may be contributing to the acceleration of the recent surge of cases across Southern California, according to a study…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – January 19, 2021
Featured Headlines How British Scientists Found the More Infectious Coronavirus Variant – New York Times Back in March, researchers decided to routinely record the genetic sequences of the virus they found, giving them a powerful tool for tracking mutations. Another…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – January 15, 2021
Featured Headlines Coronavirus-ravaged Brazil places hopes on Chinese vaccine that works only half the time – Washington Post Containment efforts have largely failed. The coronavirus is everywhere. And President Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the hundreds of thousands of dead has…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – January 14, 2021
Featured Headlines New Variant Strain of SARS-CoV-2 Identified in Travelers from Brazil – Japan Institute of Infectious Diseases n January 6, 202, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) of Japan detected a new variant isolate of SARS-CoV-2 from four…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – January 13, 2021
Featured Headlines Record deaths as global COVID-19 pace intensifies – CIDRAP With cases accelerating in many parts of the world due to a post-holiday bump and pushed by more transmissible virus variants in some locations, the world 2 days ago…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – January 8, 2021
Featured Headlines Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on mink farms between humans and mink and back to humans – Science Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a zoonotic virus—one that spilled over from another species to infect and transmit among…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – January 7, 2021
Featured Headlines Viral mutations may cause another ‘very, very bad’ COVID-19 wave, scientists warn – Science For COVID-19 researchers, the new year brings a strong sense of déjà vu. As in early 2020, the world is anxiously watching a virus…