Featured Headlines What Dr. Fauci sees coming for the pandemic this winter – NPR COVID-19 is still killing more than 1,000 people in the U.S. every day. New cases still hover around 72,000 per day — and infections are actually trending up in…
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Tulane Outbreak – November 5, 2021
Featured Headlines ‘Europe is back at the epicenter of the pandemic,’ a W.H.O. official says. – NYT Europe is again experiencing near-record levels of coronavirus cases, and could experience half a million Covid-related deaths in the next three months, the…
Tulane Outbreak – November 2, 2021
Featured Headlines Covid Deaths Top 5 Million Even as Vaccines Slash Fatality Rate – Bloomberg More than 5 million people worldwide have died from Covid-19 less than two years after the novel pathogen was first documented, despite the arrival of…
Tulane Outbreak – October 26, 2021
Featured Headlines COVID: how worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus? – The Conversation No sooner than you thought all the talk of new COVID variants was over, there’s news of yet another one: AY.4.2.…
Tulane Outbreak – October 22, 2021
Featured Headlines 49 out of the 50 people who died of COVID-19 in D.C. since June were Black – NPR The grim numbers coincide with a dramatic rise in cases due to the Delta variant and the latest peak in infections, which…
Tulane Outbreak – October 19, 2021
Featured Headlines What to know about the covid-19 treatment molnupiravir – Washington Post Molnupiravir is an antiviral pill by pharmaceutical giant Merck that aims to prevent mild to moderate cases of covid-19 from becoming severe cases that result in hospitalization…
Tulane Outbreak – October 15, 2021
Featured Headlines Data shows more children are getting sick and dying from Covid – NBC News While young children made up a very small portion of Covid deaths, September had the most new cases and deaths for kids. Thousands of…
Tulane Outbreak – October 12, 2021
Featured Headlines Pandemic restrictions force postponement of Hong Kong Open – Reuters Golf’s Hong Kong Open has been postponed until next year due to the city’s stringent travel restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, organisers said in a statement.…
Tulane Outbreak – October 8, 2021
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…
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…