Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was 'as confident as you can be' that states will hit their highest point of infections in February
Senator Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci found themselves in some heated word exchanges at the Senate hearing on COVID-19 updates. The republican Kentucky senator said that there is too much bureaucracy in the pandemic fight while Dr. Fauci accused the senator of stirring the political pot.The country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, predicted Sunday that COVID-19 cases induced by the omicron variant will peak next month.
A new, wearable device may help alert you if you are exposed to COVID-19. Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health developed an easy-to-clip-on device that can help detect low levels of SARS-COV-2 and subsequently whether a person has been exposed. "We may need to boost again, but before we make that decision, we want to determine what the durability is," he added.Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S. The reason: The variant has proved so wildly contagious that it may already be running out of people to infect, just a month and a half after it was first detected in South Africa.
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