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Your Case of Omicron Might Have Super-Boosted Your Immunity — If You Were Vaccinated
Recent preliminary research might offer some comfort to the many vaccinated Americans who came across Omicron this past winter. A pair of studies suggest that vaccinated people who caught the variant went on to develop a strong and diverse immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in general — more so than people who were vaccinated…
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The CDC Will Once Again Stop Asking People to Mask Up: Report
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is reportedly gearing up to lift recommendations for mask-wearing. The exact revisions to the guidance are still unclear, but the Associated Press reports that most Americans will no longer be asked to wear masks indoors. The changes are the latest sign that the U.S. and many other countries…
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We’re Not In the Pandemic ‘Endgame’ Yet, WHO Chief Warns
The head of the World Health Organisation is warning against pandemic hubris. On Monday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned that Omicron may not be the last important variant of the pandemic to appear and that talk of a pandemic “endgame” is still premature. At the same time, he was optimistic that this could be…
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First Omicron Death in U.S. Reported in Texas
U.S. health officials have reported the country’s first death attributed to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus — a man in his 50s from Texas. The man was unvaccinated but had previously survived a covid-19 infection; he also had underlying health conditions.