Featured Headlines Washington State allows for free marijuana joints with Covid-19 vaccine – NYT As part of its strategy to vaccinate more of its population, Washington State will allow adults to get a free marijuana joint when they receive a…
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Tulane Outbreak Daily – June 4, 2021
Featured Headlines Portugal removed from UK green list as seven others join red list – BBC Portugal will be removed from the UK’s green travel list from Tuesday, amid rising coronavirus cases and concern over a “Nepal mutation of the…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – June 1, 2021
Featured Headlines Covid-19 Is Killing Hundreds of Pregnant Women and Babies in Brazil – WSJ Expectant mothers are at greater risk; doctors face agonizing decisions on when to deliver babies prematurely Peru says its true Covid death toll is almost…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – May 28, 2021
Featured Headlines Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find – NYT Important immune cells survive in the bone marrow of people who were infected with the virus or were inoculated against it, new research suggests. Japan Extends…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – May 25, 2021
Featured Headlines Japan’s Osaka city crumples under COVID-19 onslaught – Reuters Hospitals in Japan’s second largest city of Osaka are buckling under a huge wave of new coronavirus infections, running out of beds and ventilators as exhausted doctors warn of…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – May 21, 2021
Featured Headlines New Coronavirus Detected In Patients At Malaysian Hospital; The Source May Be Dogs – NPR When the COVID-19 pandemic first exploded, Dr. Gregory Gray started to wonder whether there might be other coronaviruses out there already making people…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – May 18, 2021
Featured Headlines Why Is Covid Killing So Many Young Children in Brazil? Doctors Are Baffled – NYT xperts believe Brazil’s overloaded hospital system and uneven access to health care are among the reasons babies and small children are succumbing to…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – May 14, 2021
Featured Headlines Fully Vaccinated People Can Stop Wearing Masks Indoors And Outdoors, CDC Says – NPR The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that fully vaccinated adults can safely resume activities indoors or outdoors without masks or distancing, in…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – May 11, 2021
Featured Headlines A coronavirus variant first found in India is now officially a ‘variant of concern,’ the W.H.O. said – NYT Amid a deepening crisis in India, the World Health Organization announced Monday that it had designated the B.1.617 variant,…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – May 7, 2021
Featured Headlines How India descended into Covid-19 chaos – BBC The chief doctor of one of the hospitals – a specialist paediatric facility – told the BBC that “our hearts were in our mouths” because of the risk of children…