Is Covid-19 ending in 2021?
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This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19.
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Confirmed cases of Covid-19 and hospitalizations from the disease have been plummeting for weeks in the US and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere
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Confirmed cases of Covid-19 and hospitalizations from the disease have been plummeting for weeks in the US and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Deaths also are in decline. So it seems the long-dreaded fall-winter wave of the pandemic, which turned out to be just about as terrible as feared (with the exception that it wasn’t accompanied by much of any seasonal influenza), has finally crested.
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February 15, 2021 AP
BEIRUT Coronavirus case numbers are stabilizing in parts of the Middle East but the situation remains critical, with more than a dozen countries reporting cases of new variants, the World Health Organization said Monday.
Ahmed al-Mandhari, director of WHO’s eastern Mediterranean region, which comprises most of the Middle East, said in a press briefing from Cairo that at least one of the three new coronavirus variants was reported in the 13 countries in the region. He did not name the countries.
All three of the new variants are more contagious, according to WHO.
Our View: The tree pests are freezing, too and dying
From the editorial: Keep cheering for super-cold weather. While we shiver, we can take solace in knowing that a pest of a problem is being frozen out.
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News Tribune Editorial Board | 10:00 am, Feb. 16, 2021 ×
Emerald ash borer galleries left under the bark of a black ash tree in Hartley Park. Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com
All our shivering hasn’t been for nothing.
Deep inside as many as 1 billion trees in Minnesota, a destructive pest, the emerald ash borer, is riding out the winter by producing chemicals in its body that act as antifreeze. However, as the Minnesota Department of Agriculture reminded bundled-up Minnesotans in a statement last week, when temperatures drop to 30-below zero, 98% of the borer’s larvae die. At minus-10, 34% perish, the state agency found by monitoring infested logs.