The spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected almost a hundred million people, with over two million deaths being attributed to this illness over the past 12 months or so. The only means to counter this so far has been through non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs).
A new study describes how a successful application of mitigation techniques to prevent COVID-19 transmission to cancer patients admitted to or attending a healthcare facility might look.
New CDC testing policy could have ‘chilling’ effect on international travel, expert warns
Jan 14, 2021
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) announced Tuesday that all travelers entering the United States must present a negative COVID-19 test, or prove that they have recovered from COVID-19, before crossing U.S. borders.
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US ends 2020 with record hospitalizations, black Covid forecasts 3 minutes read
By Lucia Leal
Washington, Dec 31 (efe-epa).- The United States on Thursday closes out 2020 with a record number of people hospitalized for Covid-19 and with discouraging forecasts for the first months of 2021 after the arrival of the mutated and much more infectious British strain of the coronavirus and the slowness of the vaccination campaign.
Americans are spending a somber New Year’s Eve in the country hardest hit by the pandemic in absolute terms with almost 20 million confirmed cases and more than 343,000 Covid-19 deaths.
December has been the month with the most deaths from the pandemic so far, with new records for fatalities being set on sets of consecutive days, and with 3,744 registered Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday, according to the independent tally being kept by The Johns Hopkins University.