NEW DELHI (AP) — Healthcare and front-line workers along with people above age 60 with health problems lined up today at vaccination centers across India to receive a third dose as infections linked to the omicron variant surge. The doses, which India is calling a "precautionary" shot ...
With COVID-19 cases at record high levels, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, the Ohio Department of Health’s director, said the virus “is with us for the long haul,” but it will eventually go from a pandemic to an endemic. Vanderhoff reiterated Friday that the best way for people to protect themselves from getting “severe illness and death” from the virus is to get vaccinated. A pandemic is a disease that spreads over multiple countries while an endemic affects a large number of people in a specific area. The omicron variant, which has overtaken delta as the dominant COVID-19 strain, ...
About 1 in every 55 Ohioans was diagnosed with COVID-19 in just the past two weeks. The COVID-19 statistics in Ohio keep getting worse with the state again breaking its record for most virus cases per 100,000 residents. It was the fourth straight week with record-high COVID-19 cases per ...
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said today that he hopes everyone receives the coronavirus vaccine, but it should be a person's choice, not the result of a government mandate. The Republican attorney general, who said he is fully vaccinated and had the booster, also said ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up two major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation's vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant. The justices on the conservative-oriented court are hearing arguments ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Leaders of the nation's third-largest school district canceled classes for a third consecutive day as heated negotiations continued with the Chicago Teachers Union over remote learning and other COVID-19 safety measures. The union, which voted this week to revert to online ...
