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“We are set on a path that looks disastrous”: Alabama hospitals near collapse
Enlarge / Scott Harris, Alabama’s State Health Officer, discusses his state’s vaccination data in his office on June 29, 2021, in Montgomery, Alabama. (credit: Getty | ELIJAH NOUVELAGE) Medical professionals in Alabama are sounding the alarm over the monstrous surge of COVID-19 cases that is overwhelming the state’s hospitals—which are quickly running short on staff […]
Another COVID booster unknown: Will more doses for the vaccinated cause new variants?
Some health experts worry COVID boosters for the fully vaccinated could birth new coronavirus variants, and that the priority should be immunizing the hundreds of millions around the world who remain unvaccinated. Read More
What to know about the US COVID booster plan—and why WHO hates it
Enlarge / A health professional holds a vial of the Moderna vaccine against Covid-19 (credit: Europa Press News) US officials on Wednesday formally announced plans to offer COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to Americans—and the plans are already under fire from experts at the World Health Organization. US officials are recommending that all Americans vaccinated with […]
Pandemic of unvaccinated continues to rage as states set new COVID records
Enlarge / Emergency medicine specialist Dr. Davis Wein walks in a parking garage that was turned into a series of COVID-19 test tents at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida, on August 19, 2020. (credit: Getty | The Washington Post) As the hypertransmissible delta coronavirus variant continues its rampage through the unvaccinated, several states continue […]
School mask battles rage on as more children fall ill, fill hospitals
Enlarge / Second-grade teacher Wendy Verrall takes students temperatures during the first day of class at Tustin Ranch Elementary School in Tustin, California, on Wednesday, August 11, 2021. (credit: Getty | Orange County Register) While battles over mask mandates in schools rage on in several states, the delta-fueled COVID-19 surge continues to sicken more and […]
There are no authorized COVID booster shots. More than one million Americans have gotten them anyway
More than 1 million Americans who got the Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines have already gotten booster shots despite a lack of government authorization. Read More
Florida is ablaze with COVID-19—and its case data reporting is a hot mess
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 […]
4th person in US mysteriously stricken with deadly bacteria from South Asia
Enlarge / Burkholderia pseudomallei grown on sheep blood agar for 24 hours. B. pseudomallei is a Gram-negative aerobic bacteria, and it’s the causative agent of melioidosis. (credit: Getty | CDC/Courtesy of Larry Stauffer, Oregon State Public Health Laboratory ) A fourth person in a fourth US state has mysteriously contracted a deadly Southern Asian bacterium […]
Deep dive into stupid: Meet the growing group that rejects germ theory
Enlarge / This thriving Facebook group says viruses don’t cause disease and the pandemic isn’t real. (credit: Facebook) Listen up, sheeple: COVID-19 doesn’t exist. Viruses don’t cause disease, and they aren’t contagious. Those doctors and health experts who say otherwise don’t know what they’re talking about; the real experts are on Facebook. And they’re saying […]