Overdose deaths involving illicitly manufactured fentanyls increased sharply from July 2019 to December 2020 in certain regions of the U.S., according to the CDC's Dec. 14 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Rhode Island is seeing the highest average rate of daily COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the nation, with higher rates than all other states as well as every major U.S. region, according to state and local health agency data…
The omicron variant is spreading faster than any other COVID-19 variant, the World Health Organization warned during a Dec. 14 news conference.
More than 50 million people in the U.S. have fallen ill with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, and nearly 800,000 Americans have died as of Dec. 14 — one year after the first U.S. COVID-19…
Genomic surveillance data indicates the omicron COVID-19 variant accounts for about 3 percent of new U.S. cases, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, told NBC's Today on Dec. 14.
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Instead of only using virus case counts, policymakers should tie pandemic guidance to COVID-19 hospitalization metrics, especially in highly vaccinated areas, Monica Gandhi, MD, and Dr. Leslie Bienen wrote in an op-ed published Dec. 11 by The New York Times.
Between 25 percent to 43 percent of fully vaccinated patients at major Massachusetts hospitals tested positive for COVID-19 in the week ending Dec. 10, WBUR reports.
The nation's seven-day average for COVID-19 cases increased by more than 37 percent last week after slightly falling a week prior, according to the CDC's COVID data tracker weekly review published Dec. 10.
The first few handfuls of omicron COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have been mostly mild, with one hospitalization and no deaths, according to the CDC's Dec. 10 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Scientists are exploring whether a common flu strain has gone extinct during the pandemic, though they don't expect to have concrete findings for at least a year, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 9.