UK’s daily Covid cases fall for SEVENTH day: Infections plummet 50% to 23,511 in biggest drop in months but deaths rise by a third to 131 and hospital admissions climb by a quarter — as Professor Lockdown hints crisis could be over by October Coronavirus cases have fallen for seven days in a row amid… Read More »
Nurse Eon Walk administers the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic hosted by Mothers in Action and operated by the Los Angeles County of Public Health on July 16, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images California will require state employees and some health-care workers to show… Read More »
The American Ballet Theatre — the country’s national ballet company — has announced it will be returning to the stage in New York City this October, a year after halting indoor performances due to Covid. “We cannot wait to see ABT in the Lincoln Center theaters that are our home,” ABT Executive Director Kara Medoff… Read More »
July 21, 2021 — The Obesity Society — the leading American organization of experts devoted to understanding and treating obesity — is urging all people with obesity to go get any of the approved COVID-19 vaccines as soon as possible if they have not already done so. “We see a more virulent strain [Delta], but… Read More »
Britain, which has one of the world’s highest death tolls from COVID, is facing a new wave of cases, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson is lifting most restrictions in England in what some have dubbed “Freedom Day”. Epidemiologists are generally sceptical that lifting restrictions is the right thing to do, but many young British people… Read More »