Health and Wellness : ‘We’re in a Petri Dish’: How a Coronavirus Ravaged a Cruise Ship into Worldwide Pandemic

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Tokyo reports record number of new COVID cases as Olympics continue​

Tokyo reports record number of new COVID cases as Olympics continue

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga asked anyone who was planning to gather to watch the games to stay home.

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This Is What Black Women Should Know About The COVID-19 Delta Variant​

This Is What Black Women Should Know About The COVID-19 Delta Variant

The Delta variant was discovered in India this past December. As of now, it's spread across the globe and is the dominant strain of COVID-19 plaguing the United States.

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Black women are especially vulnerable regarding the rate of COVID mortality. An analysis conducted by Harvard explored how the intersectionality of race and gender coincided with the virus’ death rates and confirmed that Black people were dying at higher rates than their white counterparts — with Black women being three times more likely to die from the virus than white men and Asian men respectively.



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As Virus Cases Rise, Another Contagion Spreads Among the Vaccinated: Anger​

As Virus Cases Rise, Another Contagion Spreads Among the Vaccinated: Anger

As coronavirus cases resurge across the country, many inoculated Americans are losing patience with vaccine holdouts who, they say, are neglecting a civic duty or clinging to conspiracy theories and misinformation even as new patients arrive in emergency rooms and the nation renews mask...

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‘What’s Covid?’ Why People at America’s Hardest-Partying Lake Are Not About to Get Vaccinated​

‘What’s Covid?’ Why People at America’s Hardest-Partying Lake Are Not About to Get Vaccinated

At the Lake of the Ozarks, vaccines are shunned, masks are mocked and the long-term consequences take a back seat to the time at hand.

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These 6 red and blue states tell you everything you need to know about where Delta is hitting hardest — and why​

These 6 red and blue states tell you everything you need to know about where Delta is hitting hardest — and why

An average of nearly twice as many people per capita are now hospitalized for COVID-19 in states that voted for Donald Trump in 2020 as in states that voted for Joe Biden, according to a Yahoo News analysis.

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Comparing six specific states — Vermont, New Jersey, Minnesota, Florida, Louisiana and Nevada — only throws this troubling trend into sharper relief. In turn, these undervaccinated red states are now bearing the brunt of Delta’s impact.

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