After three booster campaigns in 2022, the Japanese are now in a league of their own among mRNA consuming countries, administering far more boosters than countries that had far more coercive vaccination campaigns.
New York City health officials are warning residents that the infectious omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 may be more likely to infect people who have already been vaccinated or infected with COVID-19.
At least five school districts, most in the northeast of the country, have reinstated mask requirements for students amid an uptick in COVID-19 infections, and two requested that students be tested for the virus before returning to school from winter break.
According to a recent survey by Pew Research Center, Americans' views of the Supreme Court are historically low, marked by a dramatic decline in favorability among Democrats, an increase in favorability among Republicans and an unprecedented level of political polarization, with a 45 percentage point gap between parties in favorable views, the widest in 35 years of polling.
Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, John Campbell, Ph.D., a retired nurse educator, has gained a following for his even-handed evaluations of COVID science and statistics.