[ad_1] NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Health officials are trying to determine if a large outbreak of COVID-19 at a local nursing home is the highly transmissible Delta variant. North Adams Commons reported three vaccinated residents infected on Friday morning. The total is now 20 residents and two staff, said Lisa Gaudet, spokesperson for Berkshire Healthcare … Read more
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – San Francisco could be the next Bay Area city to issue an indoor mask warrant amid a wave of COVID cases that has included more than 200 vaccinated healthcare workers in hospitals. San Francisco health officials say the city has averaged 176 new cases per day over the past … Read more
[ad_1] With the Delta variant rampant in Pennsylvania, Northampton County is once again a state coronavirus hotspot and the CDC is now recommending that residents start masking indoors again, even those who are vaccinated. The state’s health ministry reported 1,100 new cases of coronavirus on Friday, nearly double the 557 new cases reported a week … Read more
[ad_1] The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday reported 91 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death, contributing to a continued rise in infections that brought the seven-day average of new daily cases to 79.9. Saturday’s figures pushed Hancock County out of the “substantial” transmission range that is the Maine CDC … Read more
[ad_1] PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts – By July 4, Provincetown’s tourist season had reached a prepandemic pace. Restaurants were packed and queues were forming outside dance clubs. There were conga lines, drag brunches, and an omnipresent, joyful sense of relief. “We really thought we beat Covid,” said Alex Morse, who arrived this spring as chief executive. “We … Read more
[ad_1] “This is a very different variant from the one we discussed previously. It is highly transmissible and is causing a new wave of cases among those who are not vaccinated. Our experts tell me the cases will increase further before they start to come down, ”President Joe Biden said. First, what hasn’t changed: Vaccines … Read more
[ad_1] In this photo released by the Xinhua News Agency, a staff member holds a sample of a potential COVID-19 vaccine at a SinoPharm production plant in Beijing. (Zhang Yuwei / Xinhua via AP) To the press roomUPDATE 17:52 PT – Saturday July 31, 2021 Two Asian countries have refused to use Chinese-made vaccines and … Read more
[ad_1] Night view of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center in Mission Bay, San Francisco, California, December 2, 2019. Smith / Gado / Getty Images Collection More than 200 hospital staff tested positive for COVID-19 in July. Most of these staff were vaccinated and had mild to moderate symptoms. The Delta variant … Read more
[ad_1] FILE – In this file photo from April 6, 2021, bartender Denis Angelov pours drinks at Tin Pan Alley restaurant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A study of a large coronavirus outbreak in Provincetown suggests that the amount of virus in fully vaccinated people was as important as the viral load in unvaccinated people. Health officials … Read more
[ad_1] FILE – In this file photo from April 6, 2021, bartender Denis Angelov pours drinks at Tin Pan Alley restaurant in Provincetown, Mass. A study of a large coronavirus outbreak in Provincetown suggests that the amount of virus in fully vaccinated people was as important as the viral load in unvaccinated people. Health officials … Read more