Featured Headlines The Omicron Wave Is Receding. What Happens Now? – NPR [10 min audio at the link] Cases rates are dropping, but the number of people dying each day is not. Many hospitals are still overwhelmed. NPR’s Will Stone…
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Tulane Outbreak – January 28, 2022
Featured Headlines Fauci Says Covid May Not End, Hopes to Find Normalcy – Bloomberg Video CDC study finds shorter hospital stays during omicron wave, even as infections and death toll mount – Washington Post Federal health officials reported Tuesday that…
Tulane Outbreak – January 25, 2022
Featured Headlines The Worst of the Omicron Wave Could Still Be Coming – The Atlantic A long descent from a peak in cases could exact a larger toll than even Omicron’s blistering ascent. Just weeks into its staggering ascent in…
Tulane Outbreak – January 21, 2022
Featured Headlines COVID-19: Active, possibly infectious virus persists after 10 days – MedNewsToday A new study suggests that the recent trend of shortening isolation and quarantine periods for COVID-19 may be in error. The scientists measured the presence of active…
Tulane Outbreak – January 18, 2022
Featured Headlines Dr. Fauci talks about Omicron and where we are in the pandemic – Bloomberg Video Will omicron end the pandemic? It depends on new variants, Fauci explains – Seattle Times Even if enough people build natural immunity to…
Tulane Outbreak – January 11, 2022
Featured Headlines Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble – The Atlantic Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge. When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like. Much of…
Tulane Outbreak – January 7, 2022
Featured Headlines No Omicron immunity without booster, study finds – Harvard Gazette Researchers found that traditional dosing regimens of COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S. don’t produce antibodies capable of recognizing and neutralizing the Omicron variant. The number of young…
Tulane Outbreak – January 4, 2022
Featured Headlines Omicron Variant Symptoms: Latest COVID ‘Making People Really Sick in a Different Way’ – NBC As COVID-19 infections with the omicron variant of the virus surge out of control nationwide, emergency rooms are filling up again — and one well-known New York…
Tulane Outbreak – December 31, 2021
Featured Headlines Columbia University researchers estimate infections could top out during the week of Jan. 9 – Washington Post The rapid surge of omicron infections in the United States may be relatively brief, measured in weeks rather than months, according to infectious-disease…
Tulane Outbreak – December 28, 2021
Featured Headlines Omicron and delta are coming to your party – Washington Post “Omicron and delta are coming to your party,” the Democrat said at a news conference Monday. He urged people to “think twice” before attending social gatherings, adding…