No one wants to hear it, but another COVID wave is here
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When the omicron variant first emerged last November, many doctors, researchers and scientists hoped that the new strain — while more transmissible — would cause fewer deaths.
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Covid-19 cases are surging yet again in the United States, but unlike previous waves, a substantial rise in hospitalizations and deaths isn't following yet.
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Across the United States, officials have dropped mask mandates and are closing mass vaccine and testing sites as new coronavirus cases have fallen nationally to about 27,000 a day on average. But several states — mostly in the Northeast — have had some increases in case numbers over the past two weeks, according to a New York Times database
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Workers in the seafood industry were twice as likely to contract COVID-19 than employees in other food industries, according to a new study from the University of Hampshire.
Tight working conditions on vessels, as well as in seafood processing factories, appears to have played a direct role.
“You have people working, just like in any food processing, in really close quarters, working side by side together, on these food lines,” said Easton White, assistant professor of biological sciences at UNH, who led the study.
White said fishers faced challenges using PPE while onboard vessels, where a wet environment made the use of masks less effective.
The report, published in the journal PeerJ, based its findings on media reports and documented outbreaks between April 2020 and July 2021. ...