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Month: February 2021

New CDC reports warn variants could lead to rapid rise in COVID-19 cases

New coronavirus variants could lead to a rapid rise in COVID-19 cases, and can “dangerously accelerate the trajectory of the pandemic,” US health officials warned Wednesday. “I know these variants are concerning, especially as we’re seeing signs of progress,” US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House

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Cuomo said ‘he can destroy me’: NY assemblyman alleges governor threatened him over nursing homes scandal

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pleading with lawmakers for support and even threatening political retribution against Democrats who have criticized him in an aggressive effort to contain political fallout from revelations that his administration had concealed the full extent of nursing home-related deaths during the Covid pandemic.

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Autoridades de salud de Puerto Rico identifican a mujer contagiada con la cepa británica de covid-19

(CNN Español) — El secretario designado del Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico, Carlos Mellado, confirmó este martes que se identificó en la isla a una mujer puertorriqueña, residente en Europa, que dio positivo a la variante B.1.1.7., una nueva cepa de covid-19. Esta variante se identificó recientemente en el Reino Unido. Mellado informó que

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