Featured Headlines Timing Is Everything for Merck’s COVID Pill – The Atlantic The drug, molnupiravir, is named after Thor’s hammer, Mjölnir. But its power depends on reaching the right people, in the right time frame. Doctors are bracing for potential…
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Tulane Outbreak – October 5, 2021
5Featured Headlines Hospitalizations, Intubations Surged in Kids in Arkansas During Delta – MedPageToday Pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations rose by 84%, and mechanical ventilation among children more than quadrupled during summer 2021 when the Delta variant was predominant, a researcher said. The…
Tulane Outbreak – October 1, 2021
Featured Headlines Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of people in urban areas – NBC News Rural Americans are dying of Covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health…
Tulane Outbreak – September 28 2021
Featured Headlines US COVID-19 cases drop for first time in 3 months – CIDRAP The summer surge of COVID-19 cases caused by the Delta (B1617.2) variant may be tapering off after causing the fourth wave of heightened pandemic activity in…
Tulane Outbreak – September 24 2021
Featured Headlines Booster Bandits Are Walking a Fine Line – The Atlantic Americans have been getting booster shots for months now. By the end of April, when less than one-third of the country was fully vaccinated Romanian hospitals fill up with COVID…
Tulane Outbreak – September 21, 2021
Featured Headlines U.S. to Open Air Travel to Most Vaccinated Foreigners – Bloomberg The U.S. will soon allow entry to most foreign air travelers as long as they’re fully vaccinated against Covid-19 — while adding a testing requirement for unvaccinated…
Tulane Outbreak – September 17, 2021
Featured Headlines Idaho allows overwhelmed hospitals across the state to ration care if necessary – NYT With its hospitals struggling to cope with a flood of patients, Idaho officials activated “crisis standards of care” across the state on Thursday, allowing…
Tulane Outbreak – September 14, 2021
Featured Headlines What We Know About Breakthrough Infections And Long COVID – NPR Like millions of others, Kathleen Hipps thought she was safe from COVID-19 after she got two shots of the Moderna vaccine last spring. So she figured she…
Tulane Outbreak – September 10, 2021
Featured Headlines Fauci: ‘Dramatic Data’ From Israel Support COVID-19 Boosters – MedPageToday Researchers have found that, even with the country’s very high vaccination rate, “we see new PCR-positive infections and new severe COVID cases in fully vaccinated people during the…
Tulane Outbreak – September 7, 2021
Featured Headlines U.S. hospitalizations more than doubled since last Labor Day – Washington Post The number of covid-19 patients in hospitals in the United States has more than doubled since last Labor Day, a sobering statistic that illustrates how the delta…