@WSJ 2 years ago Covid-19 researchers are still racing to find answers about a virus that with every infected person has an opportunity to mutate into a new variant. "We don't know everything." on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Xi Jinping’s abrupt reversal on his zero-Covid policy has thrust China into a new public-health emergency. Nearly 250 million people were infected with the coronavirus between Dec. 1 and Dec. 20. on.wsj.com
@guardian 2 years ago Covid data shows one in 50 people infected in England theguardian.com
@WSJ 3 years ago A new study found that people who recovered from Covid-19 within the past year were 40% more likely to receive a new diagnosis of diabetes compared to those who weren’t infected on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago As spiraling Omicron cases overwhelm Hong Kong’s health system, officials doubled down on their zero-Covid strategy by commandeering thousands of apartments and hotel rooms to isolate infected residents on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago A three-week-old baby died from Covid-19 in Qatar, the second child in the country to have died from the disease in the pandemic. “This a stark reminder that people of all ages are at risk of being infected by Covid-19,” the authorities said. nyti.ms
@WSJ 3 years ago U.S. officials have cut the number of days that they recommend people should isolate for after being infected with Covid-19 on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago Many hospitals lack the beds for an influx of people infected by the Omicron variant, with intensive-care units already swamped by a combination of Delta and serious non-Covid cases on.wsj.com
@guardian 3 years ago Mouse bite may have infected Taiwan lab worker with Covid theguardian.com
@WSJ 3 years ago About 10% of people with a booster shot could still become infected with Covid-19, says Northwell’s chief of public health and epidemiology on.wsj.com
@guardian 3 years ago Indigenous people infected with Covid Delta strain at twice the rate of other Australians theguardian.com
@guardian 4 years ago UK Covid live: Delta variant made it ‘inevitable’ schoolchildren would be infected, Whitty and Van-Tam tell MPs theguardian.com
@WSJ 2 years ago Covid-19 researchers are still racing to find answers about a virus that with every infected person has an opportunity to mutate into a new variant. "We don't know everything." on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago A doctor in a city hospital in China said on social media that “primary care has exploded” with Covid patients, and more than half the doctors and nurses in the respiratory disease section were infected. nyti.ms
@WSJ 3 years ago A Shanghai nursing home put an elderly resident infected with Covid-19 into a yellow body bag and loaded her into a crematorium van, only to find just before the vehicle drove away that she was still alive on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Nearly half of Hong Kong’s 7.4 million residents have probably been infected by the coronavirus, according to new research that underscores the challenge officials face in trying to eradicate the virus. nyti.ms
@BBCWorld 3 years ago How many people have been infected with Covid more than once? bbc.in
@WSJ 3 years ago As soaring demand makes Covid-19 tests hard to come by, many people are skipping the tests altogether and going about their lives, unsure if they are infected or potentially exposing others on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago The U.S. cleared the use of Merck’s Covid-19 pill molnupiravir, the latest easy-to-use therapy that infected people can take to keep out of the hospital on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago The first large real-world study of how vaccines hold up against Omicron found that two shots of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine lowered the risk of hospital admission by 70% for patients infected with the highly mutated variant on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago The Danish prime minister is in the hot seat over a 2020 government order to cull the country’s 17 million minks for fear that infected animals could pass coronavirus to humans. nyti.ms
@WSJ 3 years ago Countries in the Asia-Pacific region are creating tougher rules for those infected with the Omicron Covid-19 variant on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago Merck said its experimental pill helped prevent serious illness and death in high-risk people infected with Covid-19, a step toward the virus’s first at-home treatment on.wsj.com
@WSJ 4 years ago For decades, researchers in the U.K. countryside purposely infected thousands with the common cold in search of answers. Here’s a look at the history behind the effort, which serves as a model for current Covid-19 human challenge trials. on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Shanghai is being gripped by China’s massive Covid wave, leading to a surge in hospitalizations and crowded funeral homes. Local health officials said that up to 70% of the city’s 26 million residents had been infected. nyti.ms
@guardian 2 years ago Chinese doctors and nurses reportedly told to work while infected as Covid surges theguardian.com
@WSJ 3 years ago South Koreans infected with Covid-19 will no longer be legally required to quarantine, and the government will stop footing the full bill for treatment on.wsj.com
@guardian 3 years ago ‘People won’t know if they are infected’: Britons on the end of Covid controls theguardian.com
@WSJ 3 years ago New U.S. Covid-19 case counts and hospitalizations data reinforces the experience of previous countries that Omicron is less dangerous to an infected individual on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago As soaring demand makes Covid-19 tests hard to come by, many people are skipping the tests altogether and going about their lives, unsure if they are infected or potentially exposing others on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago Breaking: The U.S. cleared use of a Covid-19 pill from Pfizer, the first drug that newly infected patients can now take at home to stay out of the hospital on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago About 10% of people with a booster shot could still become infected with Covid-19, says Northwell’s chief of public health and epidemiology on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago The Danish prime minister is in the hot seat over a 2020 government order to cull the country’s 17 million minks for fear that infected animals could pass coronavirus to humans. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 3 years ago 13 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant were identified in Portugal, officials said. The cases were all linked to a soccer club, Belenenses, and one of those infected was a player who had recently returned to the country from South Africa. nyti.ms
@WSJ 4 years ago Merck said its experimental pill helped prevent serious illness and death in high-risk people infected with Covid-19, a step toward the virus’s first at-home treatment on.wsj.com
@guardian 4 years ago Unvaccinated teacher infected half her students with Covid, CDC finds theguardian.com
@BBCWorld 2 years ago Nearly 90% of people in China's third most populous province infected with Covid, officials say bbc.in
@guardian 2 years ago Coronavirus levels on rise across UK with 1.7m people infected theguardian.com
@guardian 3 years ago Covid vaccines give extra protection to previously infected, studies show theguardian.com
@WSJ 3 years ago The U.K. will lift all remaining Covid-19 restrictions in England this week, including a legal requirement that those infected with the virus self-isolate, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks to fully reopen the British economy and society on.wsj.com
@WSJ 3 years ago Pfizer’s Covid pill worked against Omicron in lab studies, a sign that it can help keep the newly infected at high risk of severe disease out of the hospital on.wsj.com
@guardian 3 years ago Queensland defends anomaly that means Covid-free travellers must quarantine longer than infected locals theguardian.com
@guardian 3 years ago Son of Covid-infected man who sparked Byron Bay lockdown fined $35,000 theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago The Danish prime minister is in the hot seat over a 2020 government order to cull the country’s 17 million minks for fear that infected animals could pass coronavirus to humans. nyti.ms
@WSJ 3 years ago About 10% of people with a booster shot could still become infected with Covid-19, says Northwell’s chief of public health and epidemiology on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 3 years ago Nearly two years into a pandemic that has seen hundreds of millions of people infected and left millions dead, the Pacific island of Tonga has recorded its first coronavirus case nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 4 years ago A shaman in Sri Lanka who claimed to be able to cure coronavirus patients with a holy water died last week after being infected with the virus, a health ministry official said. Eliyantha Lindsay White was an influential and divisive figure in Sri Lanka. nyti.ms
@guardian 4 years ago Up to 100 may already be infected in New Zealand Covid outbreak, modelling says theguardian.com