If you've already ordered your COVID test kits, you can now order another batch of free tests. Go to https://t.co/owrfQPNoNM pic.twitter.com/zeS3rgoux9
— U.S. Postal Service (@USPS) March 8, 2022
Opinion by Leana Wen: Congress needs to fund Biden’s request for covid-19 resourceshttps://t.co/lz9VIfQOcg
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 8, 2022
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More (potential) casualties of war:
yeah, don't do or applaud this! poor countries have a complex geopolitical calculus to work through and ordinary Bangladeshis shouldn't suffer as a result https://t.co/9tNGsfAeGZ
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) March 8, 2022
WHO says Covid boosters are needed, reversing its previous position against 3rd shots. The agency's position has changed now that a glut of Covid vaccines exists in the world. An earlier fear of WHO officials was rich nations might hog all the doses https://t.co/tBk0S1hutQ
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 8, 2022
The omicron wave appears to finally arrive in China, which reports biggest one-day tally since Wuhan. Local transmissions have exceeded imported cases (and actual # likely larger than reported), and concurrent outbreaks are reported in multiple cities. https://t.co/gL6qOkQZ2s
— Yanzhong Huang (@YanzhongHuang) March 9, 2022
The Chinese financial hub of Shanghai is moving quickly to halt the spread of COVID-19 amid a rising wave of local symptomless cases, either delaying or cancelling dozens of concerts and exhibitions and shutting some public venues. https://t.co/l0zUC904IS
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
Hong Kong health authorities reported on Wednesday 25,991 new COVID-19 cases confirmed with nucleic acid tests and an additional 32,776 confirmed via rapid antigen tests (RATs). https://t.co/HrWQ5n8qjw
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
Hong Kong reported more than 43,000 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, a day after the launch of an online self reporting platform which lets residents register their own rapid antigen tests results. https://t.co/z2qYcXGYeL
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 8, 2022
Body bags, overflowing morgues & chaotic hospitals: Hong Kong’s #omicron-driven outbreak has reached a critical stage. HK—a wealthy financial center—now has the highest Covid death rate in the developed world https://t.co/oK5QYdlyxW
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 9, 2022
Hong Kong resident Yeung waited for 13 hours outside a hospital in the city's eastern district in cold, rainy weather with his 3-year-old daughter, who had a high fever, before they could be admitted for COVID-19 treatment. https://t.co/rY5BJA18sj
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
Hong Kong to focus COVID resources on elderly, no date set for mass tests https://t.co/7cr5wleiwv pic.twitter.com/WQItRrOa4G
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 9, 2022
The death rate in Hong Kong has now soared to be the highest of any region in the world for the duration of the pandemic pic.twitter.com/dvnQULGpEg
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 8, 2022
Compulsory mass testing for coronavirus would be useful but needs to be done at a suitable time, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Wednesday, following anxiety among the 7.4 million residents of the financial hub bracing for a citywide lockdown. https://t.co/eTNL5MJIpl
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
S.Korea reports record high 342,446 new daily COVID-19 cases https://t.co/mEsCPHTU9z pic.twitter.com/TTAblFIe6Y
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 9, 2022
We reported more cases today than the whole of 2020.
— Michael Toole ?? (@profmiketoole) March 9, 2022
Covid is adding to Ukraine's wartime pain. The country's health care system is still grappling w/ the pandemic, even as it tries to cope with the severe effects of an invasion that has sown destruction & dislocation throughout the entire nation https://t.co/XIPDyNLMnW
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 9, 2022
Austria's government says it's suspending the country's coronavirus vaccination mandate for most adults, arguing that there’s no need to implement it at present only a week before its enforcement was due to begin. https://t.co/MNxUkGPPbO
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) March 9, 2022
After weeks of doubling in the background, BA.2 is now contributing to a noticeable uptick in cases and hospital admissions in the UK. God, I'm tired (and can only imagine how HCWs feel right now). https://t.co/RwEhHe8H4p
— Nsikan Akpan, PhD (@MoNscience) March 8, 2022
WHO Africa's first woman leader sees her African identity as a strength in developing health policies to help the continent through the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/fmGUVA7ZQN
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) March 9, 2022
South African drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare on Tuesday concluded an agreement with Johnson & Johnson to package, sell and distribute the American group's COVID-19 vaccines under its own brand in Africa. https://t.co/isZ7DliTZg
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 9, 2022
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Who really owns the Covid vaccine? The multi-billion-dollar patent war over the mRNA coronavirus vaccine has grabbed the attention of the world. Watch the full video here: https://t.co/3fyN1GlGXa pic.twitter.com/YuKfkS1nqE
— CNBC (@CNBC) March 9, 2022
Omicron sub-variant BA.2 makes up 11.6% of COVID variants in U.S. – CDC https://t.co/8tC1LlNA38 pic.twitter.com/gB0aHYx9rk
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 8, 2022
Exploring omicron's ability to escape antibodies—the secret's in the spikes. #Omicron has several siblings, including BA.1.1 and BA.2 By @DelthiaRicks https://t.co/jz35839A6s pic.twitter.com/qFUQEU6fSV
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 8, 2022
Sherlock Biosciences said on Tuesday it had raised $80 million in new funding to help bolster sales of its CRISPR-based COVID-19 test and develop new diagnostics based on the breakthrough gene editing technology. https://t.co/hb5l3oOYJv
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) March 8, 2022
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The final statewide mask mandate will be lifted at the end of this month as the coronavirus pandemic eases in the U.S. Hawaii has required masks since April 2020. https://t.co/Nznu7gejjP
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 9, 2022
Masking helped protect children from the #coronavirus last fall, according to a new CDC study. It examined school districts in Arkansas from August-October during #Delta variant & found districts w/ mask requirements had 23% lower rates of infection https://t.co/klXldwX5Jq pic.twitter.com/WxLyLr2n37
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) March 9, 2022
D.C. says schools and day cares can lift mask mandate; DCPS will consider it https://t.co/TpQxSV0fkK
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 9, 2022
Paxlovid, the Covid drug, seems tailor-made for curbing spread of the virus in prisons. But few doses have been allocated to the country’s prisons, @NicholasFlorko reports. https://t.co/HoByoQTXgP
— Helen Branswell ?? (@HelenBranswell) March 8, 2022
Wondering how many -and how soon- politicians (and health pundits) are going to yell, “there’s no way anyone could’ve seen this coming…” ?
An omicron 'subvariant' is doubling in NY, just as mandates lift – Gothamist https://t.co/fziVirVZBE
— Jerome Adams (@JeromeAdamsMD) March 8, 2022
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