COVID-19 tests can spot variants, lab companies insist
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Tracking the virus: 1 year of life with COVID-19
The U.S. has been battling the coronavirus for over a year now with more than 400,000 deaths. Here s how the pandemic unfolded.STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images
As public health officials warn that the new COVID-19 variant originating in the U.K. could become dominant across the U.S. by March, the nationâs largest testing companies and laboratories say their coronavirus tests are prepared to accurately identify new virus strains as they emerge.
Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp., two of the biggest test processing labs in the U.S., say they havenât reported any changes to the accuracy of their testing data with false negatives from the new U.K. coronavirus variant.
Neglected Queens: A predominantly Indian diaspora neighborhood in New York seeking coronavirus help, feels left behind
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A New York neighborhood seeking coronavirus help feels left behind
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Feb. 7, 2021
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4of8Aminta Kilawan-Narine, founder of the South Queens Women s March, hands out information and masks at a coronavirus testing site in Richmond Hill.Photo for The Washington Post by Emily Jayne AlexanderShow MoreShow Less
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As the U.S. COVID death toll tops 450,000, the Biden administration is attempting to ramp up its vaccination campaign to slow the spread of new coronavirus variants. Meanwhile, health experts warn any vaccination progress in the United States will be threatened without global vaccine equity. “We need to, as quickly as possible, expand access to the vaccines, both in this country, in the United States, as well as around the world,” says Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, director of the ICAP at Columbia University and professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She argues that the U.S. needs to do more to supply the world with COVID-19 vaccines, as it did with HIV medications. “This is a model that can be emulated at this point in time in recognition of the fact that viruses know no borders.”
Black History Month
February is Black History Month, and DEC joins the rest of the nation in paying tribute to African American men and women whose significant contributions are woven into the fabric of America s culture. Below DEC is bringing attention to some of the most prolific environmental game changers of yesterday and today.
Paying Tribute to a Legacy
Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps
Unit 1251 C II in the 1930s.
In 1933, to combat the turmoil from the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and enlisted thousands of men and women to undertake public works projects and battle significant environmental issues. To address the impact of poor farming practices, deforestation, and destructive pests that destroyed thousands of acres of usable land across the nation, the CCC worked to reforest an estimated one million acres of land to help solve these crises.
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