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WHO Chief: the COVID Pandemic Is ‘Most Certainly Not Over'
The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over” despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments on Sunday that “we lower our guard at our peril.” The U.N. health agency’s director-general told officials gathered in Geneva for the opening of the WHO’s...
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Fauci Says U.S. Is Transitioning Out of ‘Pandemic Phase' of COVID-19
The nation’s top infectious disease expert says the coronavirus appears to be making a transition to becoming an endemic disease — occurring regularly in certain areas
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Watch: Video Shows Exact Moment Plane Mask Mandate Lifted in the Middle of Flights
Airline mask mandates are no longer in effect — and some plane passengers received that news with cheers in the middle of their flights. Watch the video here.
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Women Seek New Professional Paths During Pandemic
Since the pandemic started, these women became entrepreneurs, looking to control their own economic destinies. NBC 6’s Hilary Lane reports
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COVID Pandemic's End May Bring Turbulence for US Health Care
When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for U.S. health care.
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What Will the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic Be Like?
Experts discuss what the next phase of the pandemic might be like
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Trucker Protests at Border Shut Down Auto Plants as US Officials Warn of Broader Impact
A blockade of the bridge between Canada and Detroit by protesters demanding an end to Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions forced the shutdown Wednesday of a Ford plant and began to have broader implications for the auto industry.
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NY Nurses Made $1.5 Million Selling Fake COVID Vaccine Cards, DA Says
Two nurses working on Long Island are accused of forging official COVID-19 vaccination cards and entering the information into New York’s statewide database — a scheme that allegedly brought in over $1.5 million. The district attorney in Suffolk County announced Friday the arrests of Julie DeVuono, 49, and Marissa Urrao, 44, who worked at Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville….
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Limited Revelers Return to Times Square to Usher in 2022
New York City readied to embrace the new year — and bid good riddance to another pandemic-marred 12 months — as it prepared to revive its annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square.
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Omicron's New Year's Cocktail: Sorrow, Fear, Hope for 2022
In many places around the world, plans for New Year’s Eve celebrations are muted or canceled for the second straight year due to a surge of coronavirus infections.
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Flight Cancellations Continue for 6th Day as COVID Hits Airline Crews
Hundreds of flights are being cancelled as the omicron variant creates havoc both for travelers and for airlines who are having to cobble together flight crews as infections rise among pilots and flight attendants
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Delta Flight to Shanghai Returns to Seattle Midtrip Because of New COVID Rules
Delta Air Lines says new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent flight from Seattle in midair
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Pandemic Creates Nursing Shortage in South Florida
There was already a nationwide nursing shortage before the pandemic. Now it’s a full-blown crisis impacting every hospital in South Florida.
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COVID Pandemic Creates Nursing Shortage Crisis
There was already a nationwide nursing shortage before the pandemic. Now it’s a full-blown crisis impacting every hospital in South Florida. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports
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South Florida Coffee Shop Bouncing Back Through Pandemic
NBC 6’s Nicole Lauren takes a look at how some are bouncing back and others suffered the ultimate price amid the pandemic.
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In Omicron Hot Spot, Somber Mood as South Africa Faces Variant
The overcast, drizzly skies match the somber mood at the Tshwane University of Technology, a hot spot in South Africa’s latest surge of COVID-19 cases, apparently driven by the new omicron variant
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NY Awards First Round of Vax Scholarships for Kids 5 to 11
Ten preteens from around New York have won college scholarships for 5-to-11-year-olds who get vaccinated against COVID-19
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What Is the Omicron COVID-19 Variant?
A new variant, named B.1.1.529, was named a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization and given the name “omicron” from the letter in the Greek alphabet.
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As Tourism Brightens, Times Square Hopes to Regain Luster
Even as visitors again crowd below the jumbo screens in New York’s Times Square, the souvenir shops, restaurants, hotels and entrepreneurs within the iconic U.S. landmark are still reeling from a staggering pandemic