Enlarge / A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test to a child at the Austin Regional Clinic drive-thru vaccination and testing site in Austin, Texas, U. S., on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg ) COVID-19 cases in children have risen 30-fold since late June and are now at record highs, with nearly […]
Enlarge / A nurse administers a COVID-19 shot at a vaccination site in Florida on August 18, 2021. (credit: Getty | Sopa images) The US reached a milestone of having 200 million people vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. And for two days in a row now, over one […]
Enlarge / Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during an event on August 10, 2021. (credit: Getty | Joe Raedle) With the hypertransmissible delta variant on the rampage, Florida has become the epicenter of transmission in the US. The state is experiencing its largest surge of COVID-19 cases yet in the pandemic. Hospitalizations have reached record […]
Enlarge / Florida man and Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference held at the Assault Brigade 2506 Honorary Museum on August 05, 2021, in Hialeah, Florida. (credit: Getty | Joe Raedle) The dire COVID-19 situation in Florida continues to worsen as local and federal leaders push back against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and […]
Enlarge / Self-sewn protective face masks in a fabric store on April 3, 2020, in Jena, Germany. (credit: Getty | Jens Schlueter) Fully vaccinated Americans should go back to masking up in schools and areas of high or substantial COVID-19 transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday. The CDC says its stark […]
Enlarge / A barge carrying the Olympic Rings crosses Tokyo Bay. (credit: Getty | Valery Sharifulin ) The number of COVID-19 cases linked to the Tokyo Olympics has risen to 71, with at least three cases confirmed within the particular Olympic Village that is housing athletes, according to reports out of Japan. At minimum one […]
Enlarge / A sign requiring protective face masks in Detroit, Michigan on Sunday, March 21, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Even as the pace of vaccination in the US nears a heartening 3 million per day, the country hovers on the brink of a fourth surge, with current cases lingering at a “disturbingly high level,” […]
Enlarge / A health advisory sign on a beach in Florida. (credit: Getty | Jeff Greenberg) In mid-January, US cases of COVID-19 were in a nosedive from a towering record of over 315,000 new cases in a single day earlier in the month. And now, the pace of vaccinations has reached a heartening clip of […]
Enlarge / President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff participate in a moment of silence and candle light ceremony at sundown with 500 candles for the 500,000 dead from the COVID-19 pandemic, at the South Portico at the White House on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 in […]
(charge: Getty | Star Tribune) Even the United States on Wednesday reached an alarming landmark in its own unsuccessful pandemic reaction: an afternoon’s tally of fresh coronavirus cases attained within 100,000 for the very first time. However, the list was short lived. Now, Thursday, new instances exceeded 116,000. The nation’s third spike in most {} […]