COVID-19

The changing political geography of COVID-19 over the last two years 

COVID-19 since 2/29/2020 USA CASES 79,305,507 USA DEATHS 959,590  USA fully vaccinated 216,204,455 or 65% In the spring of 2020, the areas recording the greatest numbers of COVID-19 deaths were much more likely to vote Democratic than Republican. But by fall 2020, the pattern had reversed: Counties that voted for former President Donald Trump over President Joe…

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Adrianna Rodriguez USA TODAY As COVID-19 cases surge, fueled by the highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus, Americans wonder how to approach the holidays and safely travel and gather with friends and family.  The pace of new cases in the USA is up 41% compared with a month ago, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins data.…

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Deborah Pike Olsen, AARP, Updated September 10, 2021 A quick comparison of telltale signs There are no hard-and-fast rules about COVID-19 symptoms because the coronavirus tends to affect people differently. Here’s what experts know now: A sudden loss of smell or taste may be the first sign of COVID-19. This symptom seems to occur later and…

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Cutting-edge biomedical research brought the world a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine in record time. But as any public health official will remind you, it’s not vaccines that work, but vaccinations—meaning that the scientific achievement of the vaccine is only the first step in slowing the spread of disease. Vaccinations, by contrast, involve appreciating and…

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F.D.A. Advisory Panel Recommends Pfizer Boosters for Older People and Others at High Risk By Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland Sept. 17, 2021 Updated 8:21 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — A key advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly rejected recommending Pfizer booster shots for most recipients of the company’s coronavirus vaccine, instead endorsing them only for people who are…

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BY PETER SULLIVAN – 03/13/21 06:55 AM EST Increase vaccine supply Get shots in arms, including in hard-to-reach communities Overcome vaccine hesitancy: An NPR-PBS-Marist poll released this week found 30 percent of U.S. adults overall did not want the vaccine, a number that spiked to 49 percent among Republican men.  Make signing up for an appointment easier Make…

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Group 1a is health care workers and residents and staff of nursing homes, regardless of age. Group 1b is elderly people who are 75 or older and essential frontline workers, i.e. people with jobs in grocery stores, bus drivers and other transportation workers, meat packing plant workers, teachers, people who work in prisons, postal workers,…

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