Omicron variant
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China’s vaccine diplomacy is taking a hit. The country’s vaccine exports plummeted 97-percent in April from their peak in September 2021. The recent rise in China’s ...
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BEIJING—Police and new fencing restricted who could leave a locked-down area in Beijing on Tuesday. People lined up for throat swabs across much of Beijing as ...
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Despite media reports to the contrary, It seems China is still sticking with its “zero-covid policy.” Shanghai announced Sunday it will lockdown its 26 million residents. ...
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For much of the globe living with the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP Virus has become the new normal. The infection causes COVID-19—and has appeared as ...
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Based on official data—the Omicron variant didn’t start to surge in China until months after it first appeared. That pattern shows a stark difference to many ...
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Bill Gates recently came out during a speech and referred to the Omicron variant as a type of vaccine that has been more effective at spreading ...
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Right now, cities across the United States are still in the process of implementing vaccine mandates. And so, we’re seeing cities like Los Angeles, New York, ...
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A speech pathologist says she is seeing a 364 percent spike in the number of babies and toddlers that are being referred to her due to ...
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China’s “zero-COVID” policy sets it apart from much of the world- It has some of the toughest measures on the planet with lockdowns, travel quarantines, and mass testing. However, ...
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In Beijing—a new accusation is hitting the internet. Officials are blaming international mail from Canada—for allegedly bringing the first case of the Omicron variant to the ...
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Oregon army national guard soldiers are being deployed to help at hospitals around the state. That’s as the local health care system deals with staffing shortages ...
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China is urging people to wear masks and gloves when opening mail, especially from abroad. That’s after authorities suggested the first case of the Omicron variant ...
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The U.S. economic forecast for the first quarter of 2022 looks dim, as high inflation, supply chain and labor disruptions, and Omicron slow down growth, according ...
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With the Omicron variant spreading, it’s important to keep a healthy immune system. That’s according to virologist Dr. Cindy Duke. She says there are ways to ...
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The U.S. has broken its record for the most people hospitalized with COVID-19—as the surge caused by the Omicron variant strains healthcare systems. While President Joe ...
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s false claim about COVID-19 sparks a round of fact-checks. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky also disputes the claim. As Omicron spreads, ...
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Americans filing for unemployment benefits increased in the week ending Jan. 1, running contradictory to analyst expectations, and may be a precursor to the coming weeks ...
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A Senate showdown over easing filibuster rules is looming, the Omicron variant now makes up almost all of the new COVID-19 cases in the United States, ...
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The COVID-19 Omicron variant accounted for approximately 95.4 percent of U.S. COVID-19 cases diagnosed in the week ended Jan. 1, said the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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The tech industry is flocking to Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, or CES. City officials say there’s proof that businesses are once-again ready ...
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For the first time since the pandemic began, the U.S. is reporting an average of over 300,000 covid cases per day. This comes as the Omicron ...
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NTD spoke to Dr. Syed Haider, who has been on the front lines of the pandemic treating patients, about the Omicron latest variant and asked him, for ...
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A winter storm that hit the mid-Atlantic on Monday combined with pandemic-caused shortages of airline workers to push flight cancellations to a holiday-season high, creating more ...
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The surge of the Omicron variant is intensifying in New York, and people are lining up to get tested. As COVID cases spike, Apple has closed ...
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The CDC has issued a contingency plan to help prevent healthcare worker shortages across the country. The agency says it’s sounding the alarm partly due to ...
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Millions of Americans are traveling for the holidays. But the Omicron variant is putting a wrench in some travel plans.
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Americans are facing a second Christmas of upended holiday plans. With a surge in CCP virus infections fueled by the now-dominant Omicron variant. And many have ...
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The Omicron variant is spreading fast across the United States—just a month after the World Health Organization named it a “variant of concern.”
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President Joe Biden says there will be no federal lockdowns this winter, even though the omicron variant appears to be spreading quickly. Biden says—this year—we’re more prepared than ...
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President Joe Biden plans to mail out half-a-billion at-home virus tests and send 1,000 troops to hospitals in response to the Omicron variant, Florida is on track to ...