insert_link Health & Wellness Florida sets a record with 21,683 new COVID-19 cases reported Saturday Saturday, the state of Florida reported more new COVID-19 cases to the Centers for Disease Control than any previous day in the coronavirus pandemic: 21,683. That’s a 12.1% jump over the previous record, Jan. 7’s 19,334 cases during the worst month of the pandemic. Daily case counts routinely surpassed 10,000 as the pandemic peaked a second time. In the succeeding months, daily case counts returned to 2,000 and 8,000. By […] todayAugust 3, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated Amid an uptick in coronavirus cases across the country, members of the White House COVID-19 response team on Friday warned that communities with low vaccination rates will continue to see a preventable rise in cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the disease. “This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a press briefing. “We are seeing outbreaks […] todayJuly 20, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness Five low-vaccinated Hot Spot States are putting US at risk as Delta variant spreads Researchers have identified five undervaccinated areas in the United States where COVID-19 cases have been surging, as experts warn about the growing threat from the highly contagious Delta variant. An analysis by researchers from Georgetown University identified 30 clusters across the country that have low vaccination rates compared to their population sizes. Within those clusters, there were five hot spots across the South and lower Midwest that were experiencing a […] todayJuly 14, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Apple WWDC 2021 kicks off today Apple’s annual developer extravaganza, the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), is finally here, kicking off with the keynote presentation on June 7th at 1PM ET. Like last year, the WWDC will be an entirely digital and online-only event due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the keynote, that means we can likely expect another tightly produced video highlighting everything Apple has in store. While we aren’t expecting any announcements on the […] todayJune 7, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness CDC to Require All International Travelers to Test Negative for COVID-19 Before Entering U.S. All international travelers will soon be required to arrive in the United States with a negative COVID-19 test, according to new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last week. Under the new rules, travelers flying to America would have to show proof of a negative viral test before boarding their flight. The test must be taken within three days of their scheduled departure and passengers […] todayJanuary 19, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness Global death toll from COVID-19 tops 2M amid vaccine rollout The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat. The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The number of dead, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Brussels, Mecca, Minsk […] todayJanuary 18, 2021
insert_link Health & Wellness The CDC says the top global health story of 2020 was… Mosquitoes? Like they do every December, websites across the internet are rounding up their best posts and stories from the year. That includes the website for the Center for Global Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which highlighted its top five stories for 2020. And coming in at the number one spot, the health agency picked... mosquitoes. Specifically, it picked its recognition of World Mosquito Day, where the […] todayDecember 30, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness WHO says Children aged 12 and over should wear Masks like Adults The World Health Organization (WHO) said children aged 12 and over should wear masks to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic under the same conditions as adults, while children between six and 11 should wear them on a risk-based approach. Children aged 12 and over should particularly wear a mask when a one-metre distance from others cannot be guaranteed and there is widespread transmission in the area, the WHO and […] todayAugust 25, 2020
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