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Omicron

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Feb 07

Watch 5:33
Pharmacists struggle to keep up with a spike in demand for their services

By Maea Lenei Buhre, Jonah Anderson

Pharmacists and pharmacy workers get far less attention than other health care workers, but the stress and pressure has been intense. Staffing shortages and working conditions have been a problem throughout the pandemic, and major pharmacy chains and independent stores…

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Feb 04

U.S. employers shrug off omicron, add 467,000 jobs in January

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

The Labor Department’s Friday report also showed the unemployment rate ticked up to 4 percent from 3.9 percent. Job gains in December were also revised much higher.

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Jan 29

Watch 4:23
Omicron cases are falling – but the caseload remains dangerously high

By PBS NewsHour

The Omicron-fueled surge is slowing down in many parts of the U.S., but is still setting records nationally and internationally. While new cases in Russia broke records, many cities around the world are seeing mass protests against vaccine mandates even…

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Jan 28

Omicron has caused higher increase in U.S. daily death count than delta variant

By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press

The highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall’s delta wave.

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Jan 27

Watch 7:21
A Moderna official on COVID vaccines for kids, omicron-specific shot, waiving patents

By Amna Nawaz, Courtney Norris, Laura Santhanam

Moderna and Pfizer announced they are moving forward with trials of a new booster designed to guard specifically against omicron. This comes as the CDC reported Thursday that a third shot of either of those vaccines substantially reduced the risk…

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Jan 26

Global COVID-19 cases hit record high last week, says WHO

By Associated Press

The World Health Organization says there were 21 million new coronavirus cases reported globally last week.

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Jan 25

New Pfizer study to test omicron-specific vaccine

By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press

Pfizer and BioNTech have begun studying a COVID-19 vaccine tweaked to match to the omicron variant in healthy adults.

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Jan 24

WHO chief warns against assumption that omicron is the ‘endgame’ of the pandemic

By Jamey Keaten, Associated Press

Tedros laid out an array of achievements and concerns in global health at the start of a WHO executive board meeting but said "ending the acute phase of the pandemic must remain our collective priority."…

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Jan 22

Watch 6:32
COVID-19 latest: Omicron variant, herd immunity, worldwide vaccine access

By PBS NewsHour

In order to expand testing access and help stop the spread of the omicron variant, the Biden administration announced this week that it would begin distributing millions of COVID-19 tests and masks to Americans for free. Infectious disease epidemiologist Jessica…

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Jan 20

WATCH: Mayor of DC, governors of Washington, Colorado testify in House on omicron response

By News Desk

The mayor of Washington, DC, and governors of Washington state, Colorado and Puerto Rico will testify before the House Oversight committee on Thursday on the federal government's response to omicron.

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