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The Navajo nation faces surging virus cases: outside contacts seem to counter high vaccination rates

Wed, 2021-11-03 12:31 — mike kraft

The virus is surging on the Navajo Nation, despite high vaccination rates

The Navajo Nation managed to tame Covid-19 earlier this year, mounting a campaign that drove its vaccination rate far above the United States average, after the virus ravaged the Navajo people.

But now the nation — the largest reservation in the United States — is enduring yet another virus surge, and experts and tribal leaders aren’t sure why. Other highly vaccinated tribes are also contending with a resurgent virus.

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Country by country, scientists are charting a possible end to the COVID-19 pandemic

Wed, 2021-11-03 09:45 — mike kraft

Analysis: Country by country, scientists eye beginning of an end to the COVID-19 pandemic As the devastating Delta variant surge eases in many regions of the world, scientists are charting when, and where, COVID-19 will transition to an endemic disease in 2022 and beyond, according to Reuters interviews with over a dozen leading disease experts. Julie Steenhuysen Reuters

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COVID-19 cases rise in Europe for 5th consecutive week an hour ago

Wed, 2021-11-03 09:31 — mike kraft

COVID-19 cases rise in Europe for 5th consecutive week GENEVA (AP) — The number of coronavirus cases has risen in Europe for the fifth consecutive week, making it the only world region where COVID-19 is still increasing, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday. AP NEWS

GENEVA (AP) — The number of coronavirus cases has risen in Europe for the fifth consecutive week, making it the only world region where COVID-19 is still increasing, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday.

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Arizona reports increases in daily new COVID-19 cases and deaths

Tue, 2021-11-02 19:20 — mike kraft

Arizona reports 2,350 more COVID deaths as averages increase PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona on Tuesday reported over 2,000 additional confirmed COVID-19 cases for the seventh straight day as rolling averages of daily new cases and daily deaths showed large increases over the past two weeks. AP NEWS

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Explainer: What to know about the COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. children

Tue, 2021-11-02 18:02 — mike kraft

Explainer: What to know about the COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. children A panel of advisors to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control will vote on Tuesday on whether to recommend a COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 that was authorized last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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How Often Do COVID Vaccines Cause Heart Problems in Kids? --rarely

Tue, 2021-11-02 10:54 — mike kraft

How Often Do COVID Vaccines Cause Heart Problems in Kids? Federal regulators are reviewing data on the link between Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine and a rare heart problem in adolescents, the company announced Sunday. That side effect — myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle — has also worried advisers to federal agencies in deliberations regarding use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in younger children and teenagers.

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U.S. worker rebellion swells against vaccine mandates

Tue, 2021-11-02 09:36 — mike kraft

From Boeing to Mercedes, a U.S. worker rebellion swells over vaccine mandates In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official. Tina Bellon,Eric M. Johnson Reuters

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The most recent group of 100,000 deaths in the U.S. is very different from the first --And most were preventable.

Tue, 2021-11-02 09:24 — mike kraft

The new faces of Covid deaths The most recent group of 100,000 deaths is very different from the first, showing how the disease has shifted. And most were preventable. NBCNews

Younger, Southern, rural and white.

Those are increasingly the kinds of people who are dying of Covid-19, as the demographics of those hit hardest by the coronavirus have shifted since the pandemic first hit the United States. The country’s most recent, devastating Covid wave, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant, showed the strength of the virus even in the face of mounting vaccinations, with more than 100,000 deaths reported in the past three months.

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