The Omicron variant has caused alarm particularly in the U.S., where it is now said to account for most of the new recorded cases of COVID. But new research suggests that the highly transmissible variant is less likely to result in hospitalizations among those who get it as compared to previous variants.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it had received reports of eight cases of myocarditis in children aged 5-11 years who received Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 shot.
Millions upon millions of U.S. children have been fully masked up at school this year after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited, in part, a study out of Arizona that appeared to demonstrate the need for, and effectiveness of, masking among schoolchildren.
Dr. Marty Makary, a public health researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on Tuesday accused government officials of practicing “modern-day McCarthyism” against anyone who suggests young healthy people, especially those who recovered from COVID, don’t need booster shots.
