reader comments 151 with For a fourth consecutive summer, COVID-19 is on the rise, though this year’s warm-weather wave appears milder than those in the emergency period of the pandemic. COVID-19 indicators of hospital admissions, emergency department visits, test positivity, and wastewater levels have all been increasing in the past month, with a peak not ..
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Enlarge / Revelers celebrate New Year’s Eve in Times Square on January 1, 2023, in New York City. This year’s New Year’s Eve returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic numbers, with around 1 million people estimated to fill Times Square. reader comments 63 with 0 posters participating Share this story A new omicron coronavirus subvariant dubbed XBB.1.5 ..
Enlarge / Signage on a window of a coffee shop informs customer of their masking policy in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. The state’s indoor mask requirement, which requires everyone to wear face coverings indoors regardless of vaccination status, expired on Wednesday. reader comments 173 with 92 posters participating Share this ..
Enlarge / Boston Medical Center Child Life Specialist Karlie Bittrich sees to a baby while in a pediatrics tent set up outside of Boston Medical Center in Boston on April 29, 2020. reader comments 116 with 61 posters participating Share this story Despite being widely seen as mild, the omicron coronavirus variant has been brutal ..
Enlarge / Dr. Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022 in Washington, D.C. reader comments 242 with 131 posters participating Share this story US officials are comparing the ultra-transmissible omicron coronavirus variant to a ..
Enlarge / A medical worker in PPE works with a patient with Covid-19 in a negative pressure room in the ICU ward at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts on January 4, 2022. The hospital says it is overflowing with patients and doesn’t have many beds left. reader comments 58 with 37 posters participating ..
Enlarge / Frontline workers of the Medical Center of Aurora gather in front of the hospital for a COVID-19 memorial in Aurora, Colorado, on July 15, 2021. reader comments 42 with 29 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories More states are activating crisis standards of care, and at least two have ..
Enlarge / A coronavirus preparedness tent setup outside a hospital emergency room entrance at Gritman Medical Center in the northern Idaho city of Moscow in March 2020. reader comments 312 with 153 posters participating Share this story Health officials in Idaho are reporting dire circumstances as hospitals around the state continue to crumble under the ..
Enlarge / A nurse administers a COVID-19 shot at a vaccination site in Florida on August 18, 2021. reader comments 182 with 107 posters participating Share this story The US reached a milestone of having 200 million people vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. And for two days in ..
Enlarge / Emergency medicine specialist Dr. Davis Wein walks in a parking garage that was turned into a series of COVID-19 test tents at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida, on August 19, 2020. reader comments 207 with 139 posters participating Share this story As the hypertransmissible delta coronavirus variant continues its rampage through the ..