After administering him with oxygen, County of Los Angeles paramedics load a potential Covid-19 patient in the ambulance before transporting him to a hospital in Hawthorne, California on December 29, 2020 as a family walks by. Apu Gomes | AFP | Getty Images Covid cases are on the rise in all 50 states and the… Read More »
The delta variant poses more risks to unvaccinated people than any previous mutation of the coronavirus, including the risk of being infected by those who are vaccinated. The number of COVID-19 cases has risen more than threefold in the past month, from a seven-day average of 11,470 on June 20 to 37,673 on July 20,… Read More »
Loading the player… At least seven children are in the intensive care unit in Mississippi as the state continues to battle the delta variant of COVID-19 — and two of the children are on life support. On Twitter on Tuesday, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, a Mississippi Department of Health official, tweeted an update to an earlier… Read More »
Dr Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency said: “Cases are rising rapidly across the country and the Delta variant is now dominant. The increase is primarily in younger age groups, a large proportion of which were unvaccinated but are now being invited to receive the vaccine. BBC News – Health
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Eligible people in areas where the Indian virus variant is spreading are urged to get vaccinated. BBC News – Health
Infectious diseases expert Prof Ester Sabino, from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, said: “You need many introductions [of a virus] to start an epidemic. Six is very few. I would say if you take care and do contact tracing, this is going to decrease.” BBC News – Health