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Mask rules get tighter in Europe amid winter’s COVID-19 wave

Fri, 2022-01-14 10:19 — mike kraft

Mask rules get tighter in Europe in winter's COVID-19 wave | AP News ROME (AP) — To mask or not to mask is a question Italy settled early in the COVID-19 outbreak with a vigorous “yes." Now the onetime epicenter of the pandemic in Europe hopes even stricter mask rules will help it beat the latest infection surge. AP NEWS

... Other countries are taking similar action as the more transmissible — yet, apparently, less virulent — omicron variant spreads through the continent.

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U.S. Employers face patchwork of state policies on worker vaccination after Supreme Court order

Fri, 2022-01-14 10:03 — mike kraft

Employers face patchwork of state policies on worker vaccination after Supreme Court order U.S. companies were divided in their response to the ruling. Washington Post

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Italy to start sewer testing, experts describe advantages

Fri, 2022-01-14 09:49 — mike kraft

Italy's sewers will give early alert for future COVID spikes Italy will use the nation's sewage to predict future coronavirus spreads and to alert authorities to rising cases and new variants before they appear in testing and hospitals, a senior official said, announcing a project to be launched in coming months. Emilio Parodi Reuters

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Scientists using raw sewage as a tool to help determine how COVID infections are trending find some decrease

Fri, 2022-01-14 09:41 — mike kraft

When will this COVID surge end? Scientists search your sewage for clues As COVID-19 and the omicron variant spread across the country, scientists are increasingly testing raw sewage to track trends. YahooNews

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Where Omicron Hit First in the U.S., cases are starting to drop

Fri, 2022-01-14 09:34 — mike kraft

At another bleak moment of the pandemic in the United States — with nearly 800,000 new cases a day, deaths rising and federal medical teams deploying to overwhelmed hospitals — glints of progress have finally started to emerge. In a handful of places that were among the first to see a surge of the Omicron variant last month, reports of new coronavirus infections have started to level off or decline.

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Production issues cause shortage of two new COvid treatment pills.

Thu, 2022-01-13 19:14 — mike kraft

COVID-19 pill rollout stymied by shortages as omicron rages | AP News WASHINGTON (AP) — Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron wave of infections. AP NEWS

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Guidance on how often can you safely reuse your KN95 or N95 mask

Thu, 2022-01-13 19:08 — mike kraft

How often can you safely reuse your KN95 or N95 mask? President Biden said Thursday his administration will soon announce plans to get free high-quality masks in the hands of millions of Americans. Washington Post

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Health experts say while there are no hard and fast rules, there are best practices for safely getting multiple uses out of N95s or KN95s.

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Wisconsin National Guard will train as certified nursing assistants to support hospitals amid Covid-19 surge

Thu, 2022-01-13 18:19 — mike kraft

Wisconsin National Guard will train as certified nursing assistants to support hospitals amid Covid-19 surge As Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations surge in Wisconsin, National Guard members will be trained as certified nursing assistants to support hospitals and nursing homes across the state, Gov.

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Many U.S. Teachers confront half-empty classrooms as virus surges

Thu, 2022-01-13 17:39 — mike kraft

Teachers confront half-empty classrooms as virus surges | AP News Teachers around the U.S. are confronting classrooms where as many as half of students are absent because they have been exposed to COVID-19 or their families kept them at home out of concern about the surging coronavirus. AP NEWS

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White House: Onus on employers "to determine whether their workplace will be safe for employees"

Thu, 2022-01-13 17:25 — mike kraft

White House: Onus now on employers "to determine whether their workplace will be safe for employees" White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded to Thursday's Supreme Court ruling blocking the Biden’s administration’s vaccine or test requirement for large businesses, telling reporters the burden is now on individual employers “to determine whether their workplaces will be safe for employees, and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers.” By <a href="/profiles/rhea-mogul">Rhea Mogul</a>, Adam Renton, Jack Guy, <a href="/profiles/aditi-sandal">Aditi Sangal</a>, Melissa Macaya, <a href="/profiles/melissa

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Omicron Fueling ‘Strong' New COVID Surge in NH; Sununu Worried at Hospitalizations

Thu, 2022-01-13 17:09 — mike kraft

Omicron Fueling ‘Strong' New COVID Surge in NH; Sununu Worried at Hospitalizations New Hampshire is in the midst of an omicron-fueled COVID surge that will bring the number of new cases to new heights, Gov. Chris Sununu and other administration officials said Wednesday. “There is a very strong resurgence of omicron across New Hampshire,” Sununu said at a briefing on the state’s pandemic response. “We are likely to see more cases than… Staff Reports NBC Boston

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Supreme Court blocks vaccine-or-test mandate for employers but allows for health providers

Thu, 2022-01-13 16:04 — mike kraft

Supreme Court blocks Biden's vaccine-or-test mandate for employers The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, but allowed a vaccine-only mandate for health Nathaniel Weixel TheHill

The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, but allowed a vaccine-only mandate for health providers at federally-funded facilities.

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Omicron wave and home tests prompt media to rethink which data to report

Thu, 2022-01-13 12:53 — mike kraft

Why omicron is changing how media outlets report on COVID data | AP News For two years, coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations have been widely used barometers of the pandemic's march across the world. But the omicron wave is making a mess of the usual statistics, forcing news organizations to rethink the way they report such figures. AP NEWS

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Misinformation problem: Covid Test Misinformation Spikes Along With Spread of Omicron

Thu, 2022-01-13 12:34 — mike kraft

On Dec. 29, The Gateway Pundit, a far-right website that often spreads conspiracy theories, published an article falsely implying that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had withdrawn authorization of all P.C.R. tests for detecting Covid-19. The article collected 22,000 likes, comments and shares on Facebook and Twitter.

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