JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli ministers today agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the omicron variant. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office announced the decision following a Cabinet vote. The rare move to red-list ...
Moderna said this morning that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine should offer protection against the rapidly spreading omicron variant. Moderna said lab tests showed the half-dose booster shot increased by 37 times the level of so-called neutralizing antibodies able to fight omicron. ...
With COVID-19 cases hitting levels not seen since its peak a year ago, Gov. Mike DeWine is deploying 1,050 Ohio National Guard members, starting Monday, to hospitals, particularly those in areas hardest hit by the pandemic. DeWine also said Friday the state was in discussions with an unnamed Ohio-based staffing agency to help bring nurses and other medical personnel from other parts of the country not as heavily impacted by COVID-19 here to provide assistance. After about 22 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, DeWine said: “It’s very understandable why people are burned out. It’s ...
The number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 Ohioans is at an all-time high, having increased for six straight weeks with no signs of letting up. The 783.2 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents for the period between Dec. 2 and Wednesday is up from 718.5 cases per 100,000 last week, according to Ohio Department of Health data reported Thursday. It’s an increase of 9 percent since last week and about 120 percent since cases started to rise six weeks ago. The latest cases per 100,000 doesn’t include 11,803 reported Thursday. Of that amount, 1,347 were part of an undercount of cases ...
The Greenbriar Center Nursing Home on South Avenue in Boardman, which had four active patient cases of COVID-19 last week and five active staff cases, saw its numbers rise to 15 patient cases and six staff cases this week. It was the only area nursing home to see a significant jump in cases this week, according to data from the Ohio Department of Health. About 20 other Mahoning County facilities are listed as having current cases, but they each have a relatively small number, and it is unknown whether those numbers are up to date. Because Greenbriar’s numbers changed this week ...
Lines again stretch around blocks at some COVID-19 testing sites. Refrigerated mobile morgues are on order, and parts of Europe are re-tightening borders amid a winter spike in coronavirus infections. This year's holiday season was supposed to be a do-over for last year's subdued ...
