99.6% of WHCA survey respondents reported they had been fully vaccinated by the end of June.
Too much coverage minimizes the health risks researchers attribute to the virus, writes Kendra Pierre-Louis.
Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on a Zoom with reporters yesterday recommended, “Everyone two years of age and older should wear a mask in indoor gatherings and indoor settings such as businesses, restaurants and indoors at schools.”
Provides broadband opportunities for 3 million-plus students.
Exclusives
Another back-to-the-office date has been pushed into the new year, due to the spread of the Delta Variant.
As the virus spread across the world, governments and health authorities made a considerable amount of open-source data available to the public.
KVEO, which had three staffers come down with the virus, will revisit the policy in two weeks.
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults surveyed say they have stockpiled as a result of press coverage, including 50% who say it has been a major influence on their stockpiling behaviors.
WarnerMedia News and Sports chairman Jeff Zucker said in a memo that CNN had been operating on the honor system by not requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination from employees returning to the office. “In the past week, we have been made aware of three employees who were coming to the office unvaccinated. All three have been terminated,” Zucker said.
As coronavirus resurges across the country, medical data is no longer just the purview of epidemiologists (though a quick glance at any social media comments section shows an unlikely simultaneous surge in the number of virology experts and statisticians). Journalists reporting on COVID, however, have a particular obligation to understand the data, to add context and to acknowledge uncertainty when reporting the numbers. This guide to common COVID metrics is designed to help journalists know how each data point is calculated, what it means and, importantly, what it doesn’t mean.
