Month: May 2021

Hawaii Department of Health officials today reported 73 new confirmed and probable coronavirus infections statewide, bringing the state’s total since the start of the pandemic to 33,585 cases. There was a sharp rise in the state’s total coronavirus case count after health officials today added in 1,638 probable infections that were recorded since the start of the pandemic. Future daily case counts will include probable cases, which may add an extra 10 to 20 cases a week, officials said. The probable infections include people who never received a confirmatory test but are believed to have had the virus because of their known exposure and symptoms or because of a positive antigen test. No new coronavirus-related fatalities were reported today so the statewide death toll remains at 492...

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Residents get the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Emerald Court senior living community in Anaheim, California on Friday, January 8. Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images/FILE The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines both reduce asymptomatic and symptomatic coronavirus infections among vulnerable nursing home residents in the real world, according to new data. The incidence of Covid-19 has decreased over time among both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents in 280 nursing homes across 21 states, researchers wrote in a letter to The New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday. The researchers – from Brown University in Rhode Island and long-term care provider Genesis HealthCare in Pennsylvania – examined data on 18,242 nursing home residents who receive...

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