People line up for nucleic acid testing at a temporary Covid-19 testing site on March 22, 2022 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — As mainland C...
Tag: Omicron
Omicron BA.2 subvariant will soon dominate in U.S., but Fauci doesn’t expect another surge
Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks about the Omicron coronavirus variant during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, December 1, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Omicron’s more contagious subv...
Moderna vaccine for young kids up to 44% effective against omicron
With her husband Stephen by her side Erin Shih hugs her children Avery 6, and Aidan, 11, after they got their second Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Friday...
Do You Need A Second Covid Booster Shot? Experts Are Divided.
Topline Amid evidence of waning immunity and new Covid surges across Europe and Asia, a growing number of countries have started rolling out fourth doses of coronavirus vaccines—or are debating doing ...
Mainland China Reports First Coronavirus Deaths in More Than a Year as Omicron Spreads
HONG KONG—China reported its first deaths from Covid-19 in the mainland in more than a year as the country battles a surge of Omicron infections across the country. Two patients died of Covid-19 in th...
Data Suggests A New Covid Wave Is Spreading In Europe — Here’s Why The U.S. Should Pay Attention
Topline The number of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are approaching or surpassing record highs across Europe just weeks after countries lifted pandemic restrictions and outlined plans to...
Is omicron subvariant BA.2 to blame for rising Covid cases?
A doctor monitors a Covid-19 patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the community hospital in Germany on April 28, 2021. RONNY HARTMANN | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Covid cases are rising in ...
China ‘very vulnerable’ to omicron spread despite ‘zero-Covid policy’
Low levels of natural immunity are complicating China’s efforts to limit spread during its recent surge in cases of the new Covid omicron BA.2 subvariant, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday....
‘Stealth’ Omicron Subvariant Is Likely Behind A Surge In Cases And Hospitalizations In The U.K.
Topline Coronavirus infections and hospital admissions are surging across the U.K. just weeks after restrictions were lifted and testing scaled back as part of government plans for “living with Covid,...
Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Effective In Preventing Kids From Catching Omicron, Study Finds
Topline Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine reduced risk of infection by the omicron variant 31% among children 5-11 and 59% among children 12-15, according to a study of 1,364 children published Frida...
New Jersey will end omicron health emergency, NYC to lift indoor vaccine mandate
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy speaks to volunteers as he meets with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka during the gubernatorial election in Newark, New Jersey, November 2, 2021. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters New Jer...
Pfizer Covid vaccine was just 12% effective against omicron in kids 5 to 11, study finds
Nora Gossett, 7, reacts as she receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from Sophia Jan, MD, while her father Jeff Gossett, MD, holds her hand at Cohen Children’s Medical Center as vaccines...
Transmissibility, severity, reinfection of Omicron BA.2 subvariant
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images A more contagious subvariant of omicron, known as BA.2, is spreading across the globe and could soon become the dominant version of Covid-19. It’s now th...
More Than 5 Million Children Worldwide Have Lost A Parent Or Caregiver To Covid, Study Suggests
Topline Roughly 5.2 million children around the world have lost a parent or caregiver to Covid-19, according to a study published in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health medical journal, a figure ...
Hong Kong’s omicron spike tests its zero-Covid approach
On February 16, 2022, patients lie in hospital beds waiting for medical treatment in a temporary holding area outside Caritas Medical Center in Hong Kong. Leung Man Hei | Nurphoto | Getty Images Lam h...
Singapore hopes to ease Covid measures after omicron peaks: Lawrence Wong
SINGAPORE — Singapore’s Finance Minister Lawrence Wong said the country is “quietly confident” about handling the highly transmissible omicron variant, despite the recent surge in Co...
China Orders Partial Shutdown Of Industrial Hub After Omicron Cases Are Reported
Topline Chinese officials on Tuesday ordered a partial shutdown of the industrial city of Suzhou along with other pandemic measures after multiple infections with highly transmissible omicron variant ...
Moderna, Pfizer stocks fall as Covid omicron wave subsides in U.S.
Moderna vaccines are prepared for application at a United States military vaccination centre at Camp Foster on April 28, 2021 in Ginowan, Japan. Carl Court | Getty Images Shares of the major Covid vac...
No one knows when the pandemic will end after omicron upended most hope
Residents wait in line at a Covid-19 mobile testing site in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Senior U.S. health official...
GSK, Vir Say Their Covid Antibody Treatment Can Neutralize Fast-Spreading Omicron Relative
Topline A Covid-19 antibody treatment developed by Vir Biotechnology and GlaxoSmithKline is still capable of neutralizing the infectious omicron subvariant, BA.2, Vir announced Thursday, offering earl...
New York state lifts indoor mask mandate as surge in omicron cases subsides
A person wearing a face mask leaves a store on January 26, 2022 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images New York is dropping its strict indoor mask mandate as the surge in Covid-19 cases a...
Covid Hurts Business At Yum China; Shares Plunge 4.3% In Hong Kong
A customer collects a take-out order in a KFC restaurant in Shanghai last September. Photographer: … [+] Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Multiple waves of Delta variant outbreak...
WHO says new omicron BA.2 subvariant will rise globally
RT: Maria Van Kerkhove, Head a.i. Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis at the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations in Ge...
European Car Sales Rally Expected, But Strong Electric Performance Jeopardized By Charging Sloth
Oliver Zipse, CEO of BMW, and an i4 electric car. Zipse warned the charging network is developing … [+] too slowly (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Two high-pr...
China’s zero-Covid policy ‘won’t work’ with omicron: Epidemiologist
China’s strict zero-Covid approach won’t be able to limit the spread of the highly infectious omicron variant, according to a U.S. epidemiologist. Beijing may not be able to use the same &...
U.S. Covid Deaths Top 900,000 On Omicron Surge
Topline More than 900,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University, a bleak milestone as the country continues to battle a surge of cases ...
Payrolls show surprisingly strong gain of 467,000 despite omicron surge
Job growth rose far more than expected in January despite surging omicron cases that seemingly sent millions of workers to the sidelines, the Labor Department reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls surged ...
What We’ve Learned, Part Two
Let me begin with a quick recap. A few weeks ago, the organizers of ProWein in Düsseldorf, Germany, one of the wine industry’s largest and most-attended trade fairs, announced that they’ve rescheduled...
Companies cut 301,000 as omicron slams labor market
Companies cut jobs in January for the first time in more than a year as the spread of the Covid omicron variant appeared to hit hiring, payroll processing firm ADP reported Wednesday. Private payrolls...
U.S. Lost 301,000 Private Jobs Amid January’s Omicron Surge—The Worst Monthly Showing Since 2020
Topline After a stronger-than-expected showing in December, private U.S. employers posted their worst monthly job growth in more than a year on Wednesday, according to payroll processor ADP, one of th...