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Opinions: Questions about the need for a fourth vaccine shot, and omicron-specific vaccines

Tue, 2022-01-11 11:05 — mike kraft

What's the Benefit of a Fourth COVID Vaccine? Experts say additional boosters could provide diminishing returns Amanda D'Ambrosio medpagetoday

... as daily infections break records and hospitals across the country near capacity during the Omicron surge, many people have raised questions about whether they'll need to get a fourth dose.

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CDC weighs recommending N95 or KN95 masks instead of cloth masks against omicron variant

Tue, 2022-01-11 10:29 — mike kraft

CDC weighs recommending better masks against omicron variant The agency is likely to recommend that people who can consistently wear N95 or KN95 masks, rather than cloth masks, should do so. Washington Post

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Webinar with Dr. Fauci: 3:00 PM ET Today

Tue, 2022-01-11 09:53 — mike kraft

Fireside Chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci: Is the Pandemic in Transition?

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

3:00-3:30PM ET

Online - Livestream

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Covid-19 is "still a way off" of being endemic, WHO official says

Tue, 2022-01-11 09:31 — mike kraft

Covid-19 is "still a way off" of being endemic, WHO official says Covid-19 cannot yet be referred to as an endemic disease, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has said. By <a href="/profiles/rhea-mogul">Rhea Mogul</a>, Adam Renton, Jack Guy and Ed Upright, CNN CNN

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Dr. Catherine Smallwood, Covid-19 incident manager at the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, told a virtual WHO Europe news conference Tuesday that Covid-19 is “still a way off” endemicity.

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New U.S. COVID hospitalization record indicates that Omicron surge could be less mild than experts hoped

Tue, 2022-01-11 09:27 — mike kraft

U.S. sets new COVID hospitalization record, signaling Omicron surge could be less mild than experts hoped Experts warn that America’s Omicron surge is already more severe than in other countries and will only get worse as it spreads from highly vaccinated cities to less protected parts of the U.S. YahooNews

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Why are rapid tests for COVID-19 in such short supply? --Explainer

Mon, 2022-01-10 19:19 — mike kraft

Backround on why rapid tests for COVID-19 are in such short supply

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At-home rapid antigen tests are reselling for triple the retail price on some digital marketplaces. Testing locations in L.A. County have been overwhelmed by mile-long lines, with some events canceled due to traffic. Some would-be self-testers have resigned themselves to driving between CVS and Walgreens locations, hoping to snag a kit at a reasonable price.

Companies are racing to fulfill the excess demand.

Abbott Laboratories, which makes the BinaxNOW rapid antigen test, expects to produce 70 million tests this month and is working to raise that to 100 million, said CEO Robert Ford.

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