Featured COVID Headlines Chicago-Area Counties Approach ‘High Community Levels’ of COVID as Cases, Hospitalizations Rise – NBC Chicago Every Illinois county within the NBC 5 viewing area is now at a “medium community level” of COVID-19 according to Centers for…
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Tulane Outbreak – May 17, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines How big is the latest U.S. coronavirus wave? No one really knows. – Washington Post Eileen Wassermann struggles to calculate her daily risks at this stage of the coronavirus pandemic — with infections drastically undercounted and mask mandates gone.…
Tulane Outbreak – May 13, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines How fast omicron’s BA.2 variant is spreading around the world – Washington Post BA.2 has overtaken the original omicron version of the coronavirus that quickly dominated the world this winter Subvariants fueling COVID rises in more than…
Tulane Outbreak – May 11, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1 million U.S. Covid deaths – STAT Officially, the U.S. will almost certainly reach an awful milestone in the next two weeks: its one millionth recorded Covid-19 death. In reality, this milestone was…
Tulane Outbreak – May 6, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines A new subvariant is spreading rapidly in the United States. – NYT First came Omicron, then came its highly contagious subvariant, BA.2. That subvariant gave rise to its own subvariants, whose share of new coronavirus cases in…
Tulane Outbreak – May 3, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Cases are rising in nearly every corner of the United States. – NYT Hospitalizations remain low, partly a reflection of greater immunity in the population. Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising in a majority of American states,…
Tulane Outbreak – April 29, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Fauci clarifies that the pandemic isn’t over, after saying the U.S. is out of the ‘pandemic phase.’ – NYT Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said on Wednesday that the pandemic was not…
Tulane Outbreak – April 26, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines COVID Was Third Leading Cause of U.S. Deaths in 2021, Says CDC – MedPageToday While COVID-19 in 2021 was again the third leading cause of death in the U.S., racial and ethnic disparities narrowed from the year…
Tulane Outbreak – April 22, 2022
COVID Featured Headlines A new version of omicron is gaining a foothold in the U.S., CDC finds – NBC The new strain, called BA.2.12.1, makes up about a fifth of all new Covid-19 cases, according to the agency. When Covid…
Tulane Outbreak – April 19, 2022
Featured Headlines New CDC team: A weather service to forecast what’s next in pandemic – Washington Post A new team of federal health scientists officially embarks Tuesday on a mission to provide what has often been absent from the nation’s…