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Health
In Sewage, Clues to Omicron’s Surge
As the highly contagious Omicron variant pushes national coronavirus case numbers to record highs and sends hospitals across the country into ...
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Health
For Coronavirus Testing, the Nose May Not Always Be Best
Over the past two years, diagnosing a coronavirus infection has often required probing the nose. Health care workers have inserted slender swabs ...
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Politics
Some Colleges Loosen Rules for a Virus That Won’t Go Away
As the Omicron surge spreads across the country, sending Covid-19 case counts to new heights and disrupting daily life, some universities are ...
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Health
A popular at-home test detects most infectious Omicron cases, a study suggests.
The Abbott BinaxNOW, a widely used at-home coronavirus test, can detect the vast majority of people who are infected with the new Omicron variant ...
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Health
California hospitals find that Omicron causes fewer hospitalizations and shorter stays.
A new study of nearly 70,000 Covid patients in California demonstrates that Omicron causes less severe disease than other coronavirus variants ...
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Health
Will ‘Forever Boosting’ Beat the Coronavirus?
A year ago, just two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine — or even one, in the case of Johnson & Johnson’s formulation — were thought to offer sufficient ...
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Health
Emerging Data Raise Questions About Antigen Tests and Nasal Swabs
A small, new real-world study suggests that two widely used at-home antigen tests, the Abbott BinaxNOW and Quidel QuickVue, may fail to detect ...
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Health
In Omicron Hot Spots, Hospitals Fill Up, but I.C.U.s May Not
In hospitals around the country, doctors are taking notice: This wave of Covid seems different from the last one. Once again, as they face the ...
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Health
Studies Suggest Why Omicron Is Less Severe: It Spares the Lungs
A spate of new studies on lab animals and human tissues are providing the first hints of why the Omicron variant causes milder disease than ...
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Health
What Does It Mean to Be ‘Fully Vaccinated’ Against Covid-19?
As evidence grows that the Delta and Omicron variants of the coronavirus are causing breakthrough infections in people who were once considered ...
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