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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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India's COVID Spike and Plummet. What We Have Learned.

Mon, 2021-11-01 18:58 — mike kraft

India's COVID Spike and Plummet. What Have We Learned? Experts discuss the country's second deadly wave Shannon Firth medpagetoday

The severity of India's second COVID-19 wave took the world by surprise. Cases skyrocketed, at one point accounting for roughly half of the total infections reported globally. Then, almost as quickly, the numbers plunged.

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Analysis: This is how the pandemic start winding down in the United States

Mon, 2021-11-01 11:21 — mike kraft

How does a pandemic start winding down? You are looking at it. The United States has entered a new phase of the pandemic in which people are adapting to the persistent presence of an endemic but usually nonlethal pathogen. Washington Post

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Many American cities are still deciding how to spend federal pandemic relief money--Brookings study

Mon, 2021-11-01 11:08 — mike kraft

After pushing for billions in COVID relief, mayors take time spending federal dollars "This funding helps us to be prepared for the structural changes" spurred by the pandemic, Nan Whaley, the mayor of Dayton, Ohio, said. CBSPolitics

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A look at whether American schools opened safely.

Mon, 2021-11-01 10:35 — mike kraft

Did America’s schools open safely? We crunched the latest data on COVID and kids. Was school reopening a success? Did masks or vaccines make a big difference? Here's what the latest stats say about COVID and kids. YahooNews

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CDC study on breakthrough COVID-19 cases indicates age is the biggest factor

Mon, 2021-11-01 10:05 — mike kraft

Who Had Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases? Data shows the vaccines kept working through the Delta surge, though some groups were at higher risk of breakthrough infections or death. The New York Times

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Children prevously infected with COVID-19 wil benefit from a vaccine --experts

Fri, 2021-10-29 11:51 — mike kraft

Even if lots of children have had Covid, they’ll still benefit from the vaccine, experts say

A startling statistic emerged as advisers to the Food and Drug Administration debated use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in ages 5 to 11 last week. According to one federal scientist, by June an estimated 42 percent of these children had already been infected with the coronavirus.

That figure was much higher than anyone expected. But the estimate, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, might have overstated the percentage of children who were infected, several experts said in interviews. Among other flaws, the percentage was based on tests known to have a high rate of “false positives” — signaling the presence of antibodies where there were none.

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U.K. study finds vaccinated family members can still spread the delta variant to each other

Fri, 2021-10-29 11:40 — mike kraft

Delta Makes COVID a (Vaccinated) Family Affair Real-world U.K. study finds vaccinated family members can still spread the variant to each other Molly Walker medpagetoday

Vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections with the Delta variant still have the risk of transmitting the virus even to their vaccinated family members, British researchers found.

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America's falling Covid case rate, in 3 charts

Fri, 2021-10-29 11:31 — mike kraft

America’s falling Covid case rate, in 3 charts New cases have fallen 57 percent since early September, with experts attributing the fall to increased immunity. NBC News

The number of new Covid-19 cases in the United States has dropped by nearly a quarter in the last two weeks, further signaling a downward trend in the country’s fourth wave of the pandemic.

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