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Warm weather won’t stop COVID, top US public health officials say while stressing vaccines are the answer Updated 2:44 PM; Facebook Share Warmer weather will not end the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation’s top public health officials warned on Monday. “We have not seen seasonal trends,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, said in a news conference when asked if spring and summer temperatures alone may curb the deadly virus. Walensky, along with White House pandemic advisers Andy Slavitt and Dr. Anthony Fauci, urged Americans to focus not on the wea...

Feds ‘closely monitoring’ COVID variants, including P.1 Brazil-linked strain seen in Cape Cod surge Updated 12:54 PM; Today 12:28 PM Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Susan Walsh/Pool/Getty Images/TNS)TNS Facebook Share The White House COVID-19 response team on Monday urged Americans to roll up their sleeves for a vaccine when available and to continue blunting the virus through social distancing and mask-wearing amid spikes of highly-contagious variants, particularly among young adults. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Centers for Disease Co...

Nearly 60 P.1. variant cases have been reported on the Cape.

Cape Cod Times COVID-19 vaccinations began rolling out in mid-December on Cape Cod as part of a three-phase schedule set up by Massachusetts health officials. Phase two began Feb. 1 and people ages 75 and up are the first group eligible for vaccinations. Each phase is subdivided by eligible groups of people based on age, health risks, jobs and other factors. Vaccinations for the general public will begin in April in phase three. In the latest: Gov. Charlie Baker opened up phase two COVID-19 vaccinations Thursday, Feb. 18, to about 1 million people age 65 and up. But Cape Cod officials sa...

Yarmouth Health Director Bruce Murphy called Wednesday’s news from the Baker-Polito administration “very disappointing.” There’s not enough vaccine on the Cape for individuals age 75 and up, who have been eligible since Feb. 1 to be immunized against COVID-19, he said. “It’s akin to having people waiting in line to see The Who, and five busloads of people show up to jump the line,” said state Rep. Timothy Whelan, R-Brewster. Whelan was one of more than 90 elected and appointed Cape officials who signed a letter to Baker asking for 55,000 more doses of vaccine to immunize all Cap...