U.S. officials announced more than 100 million Covid cases this week. Two hundred million people in the U.S. are estimated to have had the virus since the beginning of the pandemic. Fears of the U.S. reimplementing draconian lockdowns have... Read More
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The NYS Governor announced the statewide indoor mask mandate will expire Thursday amid receding COVID infection and hospitalization rates. Face coverings will still be required in schools in the coming weeks as Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to wait until... Read More
Walmart and Kroeger are hiking the prices of at-home COVID test kits after a deal with the White House to sell them for $14 expired. In September, the two retailers and Amazon agreed to sell two-pack rapid testing kits at a discounted price... Read More
A couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is more likely to infect people, even if it doesn’t make them very sick, and its surge coincided with the holiday travel season in... Read More
Nassau County will distribute 20,000 free Covid-19 at-home test kits during a drive-thru event at Mitchell Field in Uniondale on Thursday. The county has also partnered with Northwell Health to offer Covid-19 PCR testing at Christopher Morley Park... Read More
As recently as the end of November, more than 99.5% of coronaviruses were Delta, according to CDC data. Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections... Read More
The discovery of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa this week caused alarm and swift action from a number of countries including travel restrictions. Here’s what you need to know about Omicron. How was this variant found? Scientists... Read More
Oil prices, stocks, and bond yields all stumbled this morning on the news of a new COVID variant. The variant reportedly originated in Africa, and several cases of the virus have already been recorded in Europe. The World Health Organization... Read More