Fourth Surge May Be a Second Wave
The CDC announced on April 7 that a coronavirus variant first detected in the U.K is now dominant in the U.S. In some ways, we re almost in a new pandemic, said one prominent public health expert earlier about the more transmissible variant. April 12, 2021, 7am PDT | Irvin Dawid Share B117, the coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom in December, is now the most common variant in the United States, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, reported Stephanie Soucheray for CIDRAP News on Wednesday, April 7.
Infection rates rise, but experts disagree on what to call surge
Reis Thebault, The Washington Post
April 4, 2021
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The debate played out on the Sunday morning news shows.Kena Betancurk/AFP via Getty Images
After weeks of decline, the average number of new coronavirus infections reported each day is higher than it s been in a month. The number of people in hospitals with covid-19 has been stagnant since mid-March. And even as highly contagious virus variants spread, state leaders are relaxing safety precautions.
This is a familiar trend. The country s leading epidemiologists disagree about what to call this latest phase of the pandemic. Is the United States on the cusp of a fourth wave ? Or is it instead seeing the last gasps of a crisis in its 14th month?
Game-changing COVID-19 variant spreading fast among children, experts say
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Children are not immune to COVID-19, experts are now reiterating.
Dr. Michael Osterholm at the University of Minnesota s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy was previously in favor of sending children back to school, claiming they didn t have to worry as much about the virus, per KTRK-13.
But a new variant identified in the United Kingdom has Osterholm switching courses, and he s not the only infectious disease expert who is concerned. We have to think about the B.1.1.7 variant as almost a brand new virus, said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, per CBS46 s Christina Maxouris. It s acting differently from anything we ve seen before, in terms of transmissibility, in terms of affecting young people, so we have to take this very seriously.
Crowded bars: March Madness or just plain madness?
DON BABWIN, Associated Press
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1of11Jillian Smith takes an order from people at Kilroy s Bar & Grill, Sunday, March 14, 2021, in Indianapolis. The NCAA Tournament and bars were made for each other, with fans of powerhouse teams like Gonzaga and longshots like Colgate pouring in to cheer their teams. Until last year, that is, when COVID-19 blew up everybody’s brackets. This year, the tournament’s back, and bars and restaurants, some shuttered for months, are open for March Madness, though things may look a little different.Darron Cummings/APShow MoreShow Less
2of11Jillian Smith pours a beer for a customer at Kilroy s Bar & Grill, Sunday, March 14, 2021, in Indianapolis. The NCAA Tournament and bars were made for each other, with fans of powerhouse teams like Gonzaga and longshots like Colgate pouring in to cheer their teams. Until last year, that is, when COVID-19 blew up everybody’s brack