Public Health

President Joe Biden's COVID-19 Response Team is considering a plan to ship masks directly to all U.S. households, NBC News reported Feb. 4. 

While the nation's seven-day COVID-19 death average has been decreasing for a week, the U.S. is still reporting an average of 3,000 people dying each day, reports The COVID Tracking Project.  

More time spent looking at computer screens means less blinking, which can lead to a number of other eye-related issues, CBS News reported Feb. 3.

Nearly 3,000 high-risk COVID-19 patients have received a monoclonal antibody therapy at RWJBarnabas Health since November, the West Orange, N.J.-based system said Feb. 3.

Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare recently vaccinated 136 residents at The Open Hearth homeless shelter during the opening of its first mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic, according to an announcement shared with Becker's Feb. 2

Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Fla., will be scaled down to adhere with health guidelines amid the pandemic, reports The New York Times.

Cases of the U.K. coronavirus variant, known as B.1.1.7, have been reported in 33 states, according to Feb. 2 data from the CDC.

About a quarter of Americans are planning to host or attend Super Bowl parties, despite warnings from public health officials to avoid mixed household gatherings due to COVID-19, according to two new surveys. 

As of October 2020, the majority of U.S. COVID-19 infections originated from people between the ages of 20 and 49, according to a report published Feb. 3 in Science Magazine. 

A mutation of the U.K. coronavirus variant known as B.1.1.7 that may be able to avert antibody protection has been detected in at least 11 samples in the U.K., The Washington Post reported Feb. 2.