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| Pandemic's effects wane as 草榴社区 returns | Western Washington University students, faculty and staff began fall quarter Wednesday as close to 鈥渘ormal鈥 as anyone has seen in years, with 鈥渆arly signs of recovering enrollment鈥 and more in-person classes after multiple quarters of online learning. |
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| Boost now or wait? The dilemma of how to ride out COVID鈥檚 next wave | Gwyneth Paige didn鈥檛 want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at first. With her health issues 鈥 hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma 鈥 she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her mother got colon cancer. 鈥淎t that point, I didn鈥檛 care if the vaccine killed me,鈥 she鈥 |
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| Meet the COVID super-dodgers | There are no winners in a pandemic. That said, if you鈥檝e made it to the summer of 2022 without yet testing positive for the coronavirus, you might feel entitled to some bragging rights. Who鈥檚 still in the game at this point? Not Anthony Fauci. Not President Joe Biden, Denzel Washington, Camila鈥 |
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| On the 鈥榖ack end of this pandemic,鈥 here鈥檚 who is keeping Whatcom鈥檚 hospital busy | The BA.5 variant of COVID-19 has yet not hit Whatcom County as hard as other parts of the country, but St. Joseph鈥檚 hospital in Bellingham is still asking for help from area residents. 鈥淲e鈥檙e certainly seeing far fewer numbers than the omicron surge and the delta surge from the hospital鈥 |
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| COVID is still in Washington. CDC urges caution as twelve counties are at 鈥榟igh鈥 levels | Although the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be behind us, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still urging communities to be careful of illness as some Washington counties have high numbers of cases. Twelve Washington counties were categorized as 鈥渉igh鈥 COVID-19 community鈥 |
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| Researchers identify symptoms associated with increased risk for long COVID | From the start of the pandemic, patients and doctors alike have been frustrated by the sizable minority of coronavirus infections that turn into long COVID, a perplexing collection of lingering and often disabling symptoms that persist weeks, months or years after the initial infection subsides鈥 |
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| Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has 鈥榲ery mild symptoms鈥 | President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and is experiencing 鈥渧ery mild symptoms,鈥 the White House said, as new variants of the highly contagious virus challenge the nation鈥檚 efforts to get back to normal after |
The rapid evolution of the coronavirus into an alphabet soup of subvariants presents a vexing challenge to health officials: They must make far-reaching policy decisions based on little biological certainty of which viral variants will be dominant this fall or winter. The Food and Drug鈥 |
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| COVID-19 vaccine boosters protect against 鈥榮evere disease鈥 from Omicron, UW-led study finds | While Omicron subvariants have evolved to evade antibody responses from the primary COVID-19 vaccine series, a new laboratory study led by researchers at UW Medicine suggests boosters may offer some protection against serious disease. An international research team analyzed plasma鈥 |
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| CDC advisers endorse more traditional Novavax COVID shot | U.S. adults who haven鈥檛 gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax -- a more traditional kind of vaccine, influential government advisers said Tuesday.
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