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New Omicron Subvariant Reaches New York: Should I Worry About BA.2?

“We’re not eating indoors or going to bars or a lot of stuff we’d like to do,” Jim Cashman, 47, said Friday afternoon, as he waited with his family at a Covid testing van near Washington Square Park. An actor, Mr. Cashman said he was worried that if he tested
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First human challenge study of Covid-19 yields valuable insights about how we get sick

[ad_1] That’s just one of the findings from research that deliberately infected healthy volunteers with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The findings were published Thursday in the journal Nature Medicine. Challenge studies can be controversial because they involve intentionally giving someone a virus or other pathogen in order to study its effects
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Covid-19 hospitalizations hit a pandemic low in the US, HHS data shows

As of Friday, there are 16,138 people in the hospital with Covid-19 — fewer than there have ever been since the US Department of Health and Human Services first started tracking in July 2020. Just 2% of hospital beds are currently in use for Covid-19 patients. Previously, the lowest point
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