WORCESTER The city s COVID-19 case count continued its downward trajectory over the past week, while vaccination sites shifted to a walk-in model and the city s equity-based mobile clinics carried on.
The city Friday confirmed another 170 cases of the pandemic virus over the past week. That number brought the number of total cases since March 2020 to 23,472, but that number was also 33 cases lower than the 203 new cases confirmed last week.
Over the same week that officials announced the hibernating field hospital at the DCU Center will be decommissioned, combined reporting of UMass Memorial Health and St. Vincent Hospital indicated that COVID-19 hospitalizations remain stable, although the combined number of inpatients ticked up by three over the past week for a total of 52.
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WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. on Tuesday recommended a “pause” in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clots, a development that could jeopardize the rollout of vaccines around the world.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration announced that they were investigating unusual clots that occurred 6 to 13 days after vaccination. The FDA commissioner said she expected the pause to last a matter of days.
The clots occurred in veins that drain blood from the brain and occurred together with low platelets, the fragments in blood that normally form clots. All six cases were in women between the ages of 18 and 48. One person died, and all of the cases remain under investigation.