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Covid infections and hospitalizations have dropped sharply in most areas from early January peaks, signaling a likely decline in deaths in the coming days. But progress could stall with the spread of new virus variants, the easing of restrictions and the possible impact of Super Bowl gatherings.
With Latino and Black communities hardest hit by coronavirus infections and deaths also having less access to vaccines in many areas, Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, the New York City borough with the highest poverty rate, opened today as a mass vaccination site.
Black Plague tea. Biomagnetism treatment. Ozone therapy. Covid flimflammery is still going strong as frightened consumers seek out and fall prey to sham treatments and cures.
The U.S. Covid death toll surges past 400,000. Also: vaccination pays, driverless cars get a green light, smoke is in the air, and more in today's Warning Wire.
Disneyland and Dodger Stadium are appointed new vaccination stations in California, while the rollout is stalled in New York and bungled at major hospitals all over. Also: the riot gets infectious, big job losses for women, and SCOTUS weighs climate change.
The CDC projects there could be 405,000 to 438,000 U.S. deaths by the end of the month. If that proves correct, about 40,000 to 73,000 more people will lose their lives to Covid in the next three weeks.
Nearly 100,000 children tested positive for coronavirus in the last two weeks of July, shortly before in-person classes in many cities and states were set to resume. That figure represents more than a quarter of the children who have tested positive since March.
Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. are predicted to reach almost 300,000 by December 1--135,000 above the current toll of more than 160,000 confirmed fatalities--according to an influential University of Washington model. With Democrats and Republicans in Congress in a stalemate over terms of another coronavirus relief package, President Trump says he might take unilateral action.
When pressed about the U.S. pandemic death toll in an interview with Axios that aired Monday, President Trump said it was under control, adding: “They are dying, that's true. And you have — it is what it is. But that doesn't mean we aren't doing everything we can. It's under control as much as you can control it. This is a horrible plague that beset us.”
A consumer watchdog group is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to shut down a group of websites advertising a so-called abortion pill reversal, a potentially dangerous treatment that is not FDA-approved.
Orvie Nix, a retiree in Amarillo, Texas, had expected his family would get its stimulus funds with a letter signed by President Trump, or by direct deposit in his bank account. Instead, Nix got an envelope in the mail from “Money Network Cardholder Services”, containing a prepaid debit card. The plain envelope seemed typical of the unwanted financial offers that flood the mail. Like an unknown number of others, Nix assumed his payment was junk mail, and put it in the shredder.
In its attempted crackdown on bogus coronavirus remedies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has encountered an old nemesis: a “miracle” solution made of chlorine dioxide that experts say is akin to drinking bleach.
Michele Gran used to warn her sons to be careful in the world. Then her worst nightmare came true.
As of mid-day today, about 12,000 people in the U.S. had died from Covid-19, but that figure almost certainly misses some, if not many, coronavirus deaths because it only includes deaths in which victims were tested and confirmed to have the disease
While public health experts continue to assure people that being outside is generally safe — with appropriate social-distancing of at least six feet — a new message is emerging about how far Americans should venture, and what is acceptable behavior.
