The UK GUARDIAN among news outlets reporting: Boris Johnson has announced the end of all Covid measures introduced to combat the Omicron variant – compulsory mask-wearing on public transport and in shops, guidance to work from home and vaccine certificates – from next week. The prime minister also told the Commons that the legal requirement on people … Read moreCovid over in UK?!
The Vatican secretary of state and his deputy have both tested positive for the coronavirus, Vatican officials said Tuesday. Cardinal Pietro Parolin serves as the Vatican’s secretary of state and the pope’s No. 2.. the AP reports sources quoting he has “very light” symptoms, while Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra is asymptomatic, officials said. There was no … Read moreVirus in the Vatican! Pandemic hits Rome
The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been trending upward since mid-November, … Read moreModels show that the US faces a wave of omicron deaths in the coming weeks
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its sweeping vaccine-or-test requirements for large private companies. But the conservative-majority court allowed similar requirements to stand for medical facilities that take Medicare or Medicaid payments. The OSHA mandate required that workers at businesses with 100 or more employees must get vaccinated or submit … Read moreSCOTUS RULES: Biden mandate struck down for private employers, health care workers still required
Another 1,000 military health workers are deploying to six U.S. states to help hospitals overwhelmed by a surge in Omicron-related COVID-19 cases, the White House said on Thursday. The teams of between seven and 25 military doctors, nurses and other personnel will begin arriving in Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio and Rhode … Read moreHabeas whocaresus!!? 1000 military health workers to six states overwhelmed by Covid
President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his administration would make “high-quality masks” available to Americans for free, as the US struggles to contain the new surge of the Omicron variant and hospitalizations from Covid-19 reach new highs. The President also announced his administration would purchase an additional 500 million Covid-19 tests — on top of … Read moreMasks across America! Biden says his administration will make free high-quality face masks available to all
There has been debate about where are the Omicron Variant has come from. Some have speculated that the lineage would take it back to someone infected with HIV. Another paper that is a reviewed suggests it jumped to mice and then jumped back to humans. Or 2021 person of the year Dr. John Campbell has … Read moreDid omicron come from mice?
Emergence in Southern France of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant of probably Cameroonian origin harbouring both substitutions N501Y and E484K in the spike protein What makes it slightly worrisome is that the peers the cases are now being found not just in France but also the United Kingdom. This at a time when Omicron should be … Read moreNew alarm in France: Covid variant of “atypical combination” with 46 mutations and 37 deletions in southern France after index case returned from Cameroon
T CELLS COME TO THE RESCUE AS STUDIES SHOW THEY STOP OMICRON?? → This story is amazing, more on the science level.. An unsung arm of the immune system appears to protect against severe disease with the omicron variant even when antibodies wane, helping to explain why a record wave of infections South Arica is … Read moreT-REX OF COVID: MEMORIES