The Guardian: Handle with care: mistakes and near-misses at UK Covid labs. >"A coronavirus-infected ferret bite is among many mishaps _...Read More_

The New York Times: Another Covid Surge May Be Coming. Are We Ready for It?. >"“We’ve been wearing rose-colored glasses instead of correcting our vision,” one _...Read More_

"Hospitals in the Mississippi Delta have always been close to the brink. Omicron was the last thing they needed."

"The country is reporting upward of 700,000 new cases a day, fewer than earlier this month, but still far more than in any prior surge."

>"Places hit first with Omicron are seeing a welcome decline in hospitalizations, but in much of the country numbers are still rising fast."

>"Omicron is pushing hospitals to their limit, but the medical system still has an ethical responsibility to all patients—no matter the choices they make."

>"They could face more staff shortages, and workers and facilities could feel caught between opposing state and federal policies."

"Xi’an, a city of 13 million people, has been on lockdown since Dec. 22, the longest in the country since the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan."

>"With tens of millions of unvaccinated Americans at higher risk for severe disease from Covid-19 infections, doctors and health care facilities nationwide are reporting a rising number of young people hospitalized, some of whom are too _...Read More_

>"PM rejects claim relative lack of restrictions in England is a gamble but says it would be ‘absolute folly’ to believe threat has passed"

The highly transmissible Omicron variant is teaming up with the busy holiday season to infect more children across the United States than ever before, and children's hospitals are bracing for it to get even worse.

>"The research is still early on the virulence of the Omicron coronavirus variant -- but what's abundantly clear, according to experts, is that it's poised to spread rapidly across the US and will likely overwhelm a battered US health _...Read More_

>"With vaccinated people receiving their boosters, the horrors of Covid are now restricted to those who won’t or can’t have a jab, say academics Andrew Pollard and Brian Angus"

"The senselessness of the death, and her guilt over her own resentment, messed her up. Weeks later, when the same family called to _...Read More_

The Guardian: Patients are dying from being stuck in ambulances outside A&E, report says. >"Exclusive: handover _...Read More_