Month: June 2021

The proportion of Covid-19 laboratory tests that are coming back positive is at the lowest recorded point since the pandemic took hold in the U.S., a sign of progress as the country moves ahead with reopening. Laboratories processed more than 677,000 laboratory-based Covid-19 tests a day on average during the week ended June 3, down from the peak of more than two million during the fall and winter, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some 2% of Covid-19 tests are coming back positive, compared with more than 13% during the height of the winter surge, according to Johns Hopkins University, which compiles Covid-19 testing and case data in the U.S. The percentage of tests that come back positive, known as the test-posi...

"Then 2020 hit and the universe says, 'Hey, I got something for you,'" she told CNN. Like millions of Americans, Lawson has been mostly locked down at home since last March with her 87-year-old mother, who she cares for, and her active social schedule came to a screeching halt. The 57-year-old conflict analyst has been able to do most of her work from her Atlanta-area home. On the rare occasions she did have to go to the office during the peak of the pandemic, she would get up at four or five in the morning, so she could get her work done and leave before other people came in. Tracking Covid-19 vaccines in the US That's creating new anxiety for Lawson, who has been slow to return to her old life. "I'm vaccinated. I'm fully vaccinated, but I guess I'm just pandemic shy right now," she said...

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CDC seeing "increased Interseasonal Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) activity in parts of the Southern United States" by: Michael Scheidt Posted: Jun 12, 2021 / 07:00 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 12, 2021 / 10:58 AM CDT (Getty Images) ATLANTA, GA. (BRPROUD) – Did you know that “by their second birthday, nearly all children in the United States will have had respiratory syncytial virus,” according to Yale Medicine. With that in mind, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing a health advisory for part of the Southern United States. The health advisory centers around an increase in RSV cases. The CDC defines respiratory syncytial virus this way: Respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-...