The city health department attributes the rise in cases to the BA.4 or BA.5 omicron subvariant, which made up 46 percent of cases sampled in the most recent week where data was available.
Recently, Biden administration officials have been privately mulling the number of daily Covid-19 deaths at which the virus could be considered to be under control.
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The two federal programs intended to compensate people injured by vaccines or pandemic countermeasures are fielding thousands of claims unlikely to be resolved — or paid out — anytime soon.